Figures of Speech

Select an example of personification from the provided examples below.

• Lightning danced across the sky.

• The wind howled in the night.

• The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

• All of the above.

Select the correct answer below:

The ________ of the mosquito kept her up all night.

• Buzzing

• Meow

• Hurray!

• Yippeee!

Define the figure of speech "Hyperbole".

• Is an understatement.

• A comparison between like and as.

• Two contrasting statements.

• Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Which one of the following is a simile ?

• Time is a thief.

• This house is as clean as a whistle.

• Its raining men.

• I think he's about to fade off to sleep.

Discuss the definition of personification.

• Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to something non-human.

• Personification is giving human beings the characteristics of an animal.

• Personification is the comparison between human and lifeless things.

• All of the above .

I've told you to clean your room a million times! The sentence above is an example of a ....

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Which of the definitions below describes "Alliteration"?

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Is a conjunction in a sentence.

• Agreement or harmony between people or groups.

• None of the above

Her life was a rainbow of experiences.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Betsy baked better bread with bananas, blueberries, and butter

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Two figures of speech that involve comparisons are

• simile and metaphor
• hyperbole and simile
• personification and idiom
• alliteration and metaphor