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Figurative Language Mini-Quiz

Authored by Anthony Funes

English

11th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Figurative Language Mini-Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which is an example of a simile?

His room was a hurricane of a mess.
His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.
A hurricane! AHHH!
The hurricane screamed through the town. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is a metaphor?

A comparison using "like" or "as"
A comparison without using "like" or "as"
A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
An extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

Boom!
No!
Yes!
Go!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is the definition of hyperbole?

When a group of of words all start with the same sound.
When words sound like what they mean.
An extreme exaggeration 
A comparison 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is an example of personification?

You are as a beautiful as a flower.
The trees danced in the wind.
I waited in line for 10 years!
He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Crash! Crunch! Grunt! yelped my dog as he jumped on the table and fell" is an example of:

personification
onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of these lines from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” contains alliteration?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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