Figures of Speech

Which is NOT an example of hyperbole?

• That woman has no self-control.

• If I don't get the latest iPhone, I'll die!

• I'd climb every mountain and swim every ocean to be with you.

• You were as quick as a cheetah.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Identify the figure of speech used: Her heels clacked on the hardwood floor.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the figure of speech used:

Leave your loneliness panting behind you.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"The fly buzzed past us" is an example of ______________.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:

My father was a box of chocolates; you'll never know what you'll get.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This figurative language uses the words like or as to show comparison.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Irony

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is the figure of speech used in the sentence below:

Vice Ganda's jokes are seriously funny.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Irony

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Irony is shown in which of the following sentences:

• Oh, you stupid car, you never work when I need you to," Dan cried.

• BSED English students have a ton of things to do when they get home.

• Vince was white as a sheet after he walked out of the horror movie.

• A man who needs medical assistance is run over by the ambulance.

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• Halo-Halo is my Achilles' heel.

• Nothing annoys me more than Vince rapidly clicking his pen.

• This is the beginning of the end.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Louie is such a scrooge when it comes to buying Christmas gifts" is an example of _______________.

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4