Figurative Language Test 2

Be sure to take your time and read each question CAREFULLY!

• Yeah, okay, whatever.

• Im reading carefuly.

• I am paying attention.

• I allways read carefully.

_____________ is the repetition of initial consonant sounds (the first letter of the word)

• Allusion

• Repetition

• Tongue Twisters

• Alliteration

Dramatic exaggerations are called....

• Exclamation

• Hyperbole

• Figures of Speech

• Idiom

____________ is writing that appeals to the 5 senses (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound) to help create mental pictures.

• Imagery

• Imagination

• Figurative Language

• Personification

A figure of speech that says that one thing is something else or directly compares 2 unlike things without using like or as

• Metaphore

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

This funky word refers to words that imitate or describe sounds

• Hyberbole

• Oxymoron

• Ostentatious

• Onomatopoeia

A type of figurative language in which a non-human object or being is given human characteristics

• Humanitarian

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

A figure of speech that makes a comparison of two or more things using like or as

• S M I L E

• S I M I L I E

• M E T A P H O R

• S I M I L E

A reference to something well known or popular

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Antonym

• Oxymoron

A common expression that means something other than the literal meaning of its individual words.

• Figurative Language

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Oxymoron