Figurative Language Quiz

_____a figure of speech in which two a things are compared, NOT using like or as 

• Simile 
• Metaphor 
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Mrs. Woodrome whistles while she works well. 
This is figure of speech is _____ 

• Rhyme 
• Alphabet 
• Alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I am so hungry I could eat a cow. 
This figure of speech is _____.

• Hyperbole 
• Simile 
• Rhyme 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it..
Example: Crash! 

• Alliteration 
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor 

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What do you think the meaning of this metaphor,
"She is a walking dictionary" is? 

• Was is tired 
• She knows a lot of words
• She was walks around the street 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When I was at Six Flags, I waited in line for years.
What figurative speech is this? 

• Metaphor 
• Personification 
• Hyperbole 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The river spills over rocks and whispers to me-
Kawishiwee...Kawishiwee-
and rushes on to anywhere.
This is an example of: 

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The snow is a white blanket.
This is an example of: 

• personification 
• metaphor 
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Ka-Pow!

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Nick's idea was a thought grenade!

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D