Figurative Language Test

A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Paradox

• Pun

The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

A comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

A play on words; sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Alliteration

The giving of human qualities to an animal, object or abstract idea.

• Personification

• Allusion

• Irony

• Hyperbole

An expression used by a particular group of people with a meaning that is only known through common use.

• Idiom

• Synecdoche

• Anaphora

• Euphemsim

An exaggerated statement used to emphasize an idea or make a point.

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Simile

• Oxymoron

A brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

• Analogy

• Assonance

The use of words which actually sound like the objects or actions to which they refer

• Onomatopoeia

• Synecdoche

• Alliteration

• Euphemism

when what is said is the opposite of what is meant

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony