Figurative Language and Poetry Quiz

A comparison of two unrelated things using connecting words such as "like" or "as".

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

Departing from the literal use of a word.

• Literally

• Alliteration

• Figurative

• rhythm

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound or movement.

• Poetry

• Rhythm

• Simile

• Rhyme

A correspondence of sound between words, especially the endings of words.

• Rhythm

• Poetry

• Personification

• Rhyme

A deliberate exaggeration to make a point.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Figurative

• Idiom

Giving human qualities and characteristics to something that is not human.

• Hyperbole

• Poetry

• Metaphor

• Personification

The repeating of the same beginning sound in a group of words.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Figurative

• Rhyme

A saying whose meaning can't always be understood from the individual words in it, but holds a common truth.

• Adage

• Poetry

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

• Figurative

• Poetry

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

A comparison of two unrelated things that does NOT use connecting words.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Figurative

• Metaphor