Figurative Language Quiz

Using a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Figurative Language

• Personification

A series of words or phrases that all (or almost all) start with the same sound.

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Personification

What does an author use when he/she describes a scene, thing, or idea so that it appeals to our senses (taste, smell, sight, touch, or hearing).

• Imagery

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

An exaggerated statement that's not meant to be taken literally by the reader

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

When an author makes an indirect reference to a popularly known person, figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text

• Simile

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Alliteration

When a statement is used to express an opposite meaning than the one literally expressed by it

• Irony

• Imagery

• Rhythm

• Onomatopoeia

A type of metaphor in which an object, idea, character, action, etc., is compared to another thing using the words "as" or "like"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Allusion

When an author compares one thing to another, showing its similarity with something else

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

A word (or group of words) that represents a sound and actually resembles or imitates the sound it stands for

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Simile

When a nonhuman figure or other abstract concept or element is described as having human-like qualities or characteristics

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole