Figurative Language Review

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

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

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

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"The water well is as dry as a bone."
is an example of a(n)...

• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile 
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Fall Fridays feel fantastic. 

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• Time waits for no one
• That man was as tall as a mountain.
• Pop
• Please put your pen away and play the piano.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following examples of figurative language is a metaphor?

• The car’s engine complained loudly
• Stench of failure
• Sizzle
• Boom

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

repeated vowel sounds
They roam the lonesome roads and never go home.

• alliteration
• consonance
• assonance
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following is a play on words?

• Allusion
• Pun
• Idiom
• Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A