A Figurative Language Review (Flocabulary Lesson)
Authored by Mel Simmons-Rosen
English
6th - 9th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on figurative language identification and analysis, covering the essential literary devices that middle school students encounter in their English Language Arts curriculum. The content is appropriate for grades 6-8, as it requires students to distinguish between various types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, allusions, alliteration, assonance, puns, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, juxtaposition, and personification. Students need a solid understanding of how authors use comparison techniques (similes vs. metaphors), sound devices (alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia), exaggeration for effect (hyperbole), contrasting ideas (juxtaposition), wordplay (puns), references to well-known figures or works (allusion), and human characteristics given to non-human things (personification). The quiz demands that students not only recognize these devices but also differentiate between similar techniques, demonstrating higher-order thinking skills essential for literary analysis. Created by Mel Simmons-Rosen, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 6 and 9. This assessment serves as an excellent tool for reinforcing figurative language concepts after direct instruction, making it perfect for review sessions, homework assignments, or formative assessment to gauge student understanding before moving to more complex literary analysis. Teachers can use this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge, as independent practice to reinforce learning, or as a checkpoint to identify students who need additional support with figurative language recognition. The quiz effectively supports Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.5, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4, which focus on understanding figurative language and analyzing how specific word choices impact meaning and tone in literary texts.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which sentence contains a simile?
Rachel smiled like a Cheshire cat.
Boyd had been awake for 500 hours.
Our mayer is no Abe Lincoln.
Fairwell, my fair-haired friend.
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Love is a thrill ride. This sentence uses:
juxtaposition
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This kid was a young Albert Einstein. This sentence uses:
onomatopoeia
assonance
metaphor
allusion
Tags
CCSS.L.7.5A
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Nily briefly brushed the baby's hair. This sentence uses:
assonance
alliteration
onomatopoeia
juxtaposition
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which sentence contains a pun?
The man zipped around the corner.
Reading on the beach can make you well red.
Her voice was the most beautful music.
The stars winked at me that night.
Tags
CCSS.L.8.5A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which sentence is an example of assonance?
The truck was going a million miles an hour.
The toy boat whizzed past the dock.
The small boy grabbed Roy's toy.
Sheila pinches pennies like Scrooge.
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
pour
zap
reach
feel
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
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