Figurative Language Quiz # 1

Choose the best alliteration definition:

• The repetition of vowel sounds in close proximity.

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.

Which of the following is the best example of Alliteration?

• She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

• She was giving him the cold shoulder

• He was fuming like a pot.

I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.

• Hyperbole
• Not a Hyperbole

My apartment cost 500.00 a month for rent.

• Hyperbole
• Not a hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things

• exaggerate

• give person-like qualities to animals and things

• have a different meaning than the words.

What is an idiom?

• A bird?
• A device used to confuse the reader.
• A word or phrase that does not mean what it says.
• A group of words that begin with the same sound.

What does it mean to say: "It's raining cats and dogs!"?

• Cats and dogs are falling from the sky.
• It's raining very heavily.
• We are having a tornado.
• Animals have learned to fly.

What is a couch potato?

• A person who likes to eat potatoes on the couch.
• A potato pillow.
• A person who likes to sit and watch tv on the couch.
• A person who likes to play hot potato.

What does it really mean? "It's a piece of cake."

• Something is easy.
• Something is delicious.
• Something is soft and warm. 

Define PERSONIFICATION - 

• an exaggeration
• comparing using "like" or "as"
• giving human qualities to a nonhuman
• sound words