Figurative Language Mini-Quiz

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. 

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

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• Boom!

• No!

• Yes!

• Go!

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 

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. 

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

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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.”

Most monsters don’t mind making messes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

My dad knows everything about cars.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

The ice sculptor’s hands fluttered like hummingbird wings.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification