Figurative Language Test

An extreme exaggeration, which can sometimes be funny

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

When you give human qualities to an animal or object.

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words

• hyperbole

• idiom

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparing objects using "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

an common expression or saying that is not meant to be taken literally; it will not make sense when directly translated

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Words that resemble the sound they describe.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A comparison of two things that does NOT use like or as. This is saying one thing IS the other.

• simile

• metaphor

• pun

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A reference to a famous person, book, place, or work of art

• alliteration

• personification

• allusion

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The fly buzzed past us.

• personification

• simile

• hypebole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The sun flowers nodded their yellow heads.

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D