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Figures of Speech

Authored by Ericson Cabrera

English, Arts

University

CCSS covered

Used 157+ times

Figures of Speech
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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"These walls have ears"

This sentence is an example of :

metaphor

personification

simile

alliteration

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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"The baby's skin was like a rose petal"

This sentence is an example of:

metaphor

personification

contrast

simile

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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"the leaves danced in the wind"

This sentence is an example of:

alliteration

metaphor

personification

simile

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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"I am so hungry that I can eat a horse"

This sentence is an example of:

simile

hyperbole

personification

metaphor

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Figures of speech mean exactly what the words say.

True

False

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

A figure of speech is...

a familiar expression
a non-literal way of saying something
what the author literally means
something only writers use

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

"Pretty Ugly" is an example of which Figure of Speech?

simile
metaphor
oxymoron
personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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