Figurative Language

An extreme exaggeration is called a...

• hyperbole

• understatement

• idiom

• analogy

Saying that one object is another is an example of which term?

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

A comparison between two unlike objects can be classified as all of the following except...

• simile

• metaphor

• analogy

• idiom

Personification gives human characteristics to...

• animals

• non-living objects

• non-human objects

• all answers are correct

Figures of speech that have become common sayings are known as...

• metaphors

• similes

• analogies

• idioms

Which figure of speech is used in this sentence? "The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads to the sun."

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• understatement

Which figure of speech is used in this sentence? "We had to wait forever!"

• understatement

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• analogy

Which figure of speech is used in this sentence? "My life is a dream of wonders."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• irony

If you said "Oh, it was GREAT!" after something boring, you would be using...

• verbal irony

• personification

• understatement

• hyperbole

Which figure of speech is used in this sentence? "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players; they have their exits and their entrances."

• analogy

• personification

• irony

• simile