Figurative Language Quiz

What is figurative language?

• Words describing someone's figure

• The opposite of literal language because you don't mean exactly what you say.

• Vocabulary words you need to know

• The way you figure things out in English class

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is literal language?

• Meaning exactly what you say

• Bad words that will get you into trouble if you say them in school

• The way people in certain states speak

• Meaning something different from what you actually say

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figurative language repeats the same beginning sound for 2 or more words in the same sentence?

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language uses words to describe sounds?

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of figurative language gives human qualities to things that are not human?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language makes a comparison using the words "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language contradicts itself by placing two opposite words together?

• Onomatopoiea

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which type of figurative language is a popular expression that means something different from its literal translation?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which type of figurative language makes a comparison WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which type of figurative language is an exaggeration so dramatic that it's hard to believe?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A