Figurative Language Quiz

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as

• giving human traits to objects or ideas to things that are not living

• an extreme exaggeration

• a word that resemebles the sound it represents

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas that are not living

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• repetition of the same consonant sound

• a contradictory phrase that puts two opposite words together

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using like or as
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as
• an extreme exaggeration
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• words or phrases that are contradictory

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an idiom?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exageration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other
• comparing two things by using like or as
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as

• repetition of the same consonant sound

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

What is irony?

• a contradictory phrase that puts two opposite words together

• the opposite of what you expect happens

• comparing two things without using like or as

• describing something using the 5 senses

What is an oxymoron?

• giving human qualities to non living things

• repetition of the same consonant sound

• a contradictory statement that puts two opposite words together

• words that mean something other than their literal definition

What type of figurative language is shown?

The thunder boomed in the storm.

• oxymoron

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia