Figurative Language Summative

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

"She was a kite, floating above the confusion around her."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

"The child's tears were like raindrops from a tiny cloud."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

"The sunshine was like a warm blanket on a cold and rainy night. "

According to the figurative language in the above sentence, "sunshine" makes the writer feel...

• tired

• warm

• cold

• soaked

"The shadows danced in the moonlight."

This sentence uses ______________________.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

Which sentence shows an example of hyperbole?

• I have been waiting in this line forever.

• The pencil sharpener chewed my pencil.

• The book told me a story.

• Life is like a dream.

Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

"I have a million papers to grade!"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Which sentence is NOT personification?

• The cookie jar forced me to eat a cookie.

• The oven called me with the smells of baking cookies.

• The kitchen hummed with the sounds of bakers baking.

• I ate so many cookies my stomach will burst.

(1) Everybody in our family has different hair. (2) My Papa's hair is like a broom, all up in the air. (3) And me, my hair is lazy. (4) And Kiki, who is the youngest, has hair like fur.

Which 2 sentences this paragraph by Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street, contain SIMILES?

• 1 and 2

• 1 and 3

• 2 and 4

• 3 and 4

Every morning at my house, we eat breakfast dawn. My mom likes to cook big breakfasts. The scrambled eggs are a mountain on the plate. The pancakes are fluffy and sweet. I soak them in strawberry syrup. With food like this, who wouldn't want to get up early?

What does the metaphor, "The scrambled eggs are a mountain on the plate" in the paragraph mean?

• The scrambled eggs are hard.

• There scrambled eggs are cold.

• There are a lot of scrambled eggs.

• The scrambled eggs are like pancakes.

It's spring

And the garden is changing its clothes,

Putting away

Its dark winter suits.

Its dull scarves

And drab brown overcoats.

This poem about how a garden changes in spring uses this type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole