Figurative Language Review

"Her face was as red as a tomato" is an example of which kind of figurative language?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A word whose sounds suggests its meaning is which type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"He thought he was going to die from embarrassment" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole
• Assonance
• Idiom
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison using like or as is which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"Your room is a pigsty!" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The use of vivid description to create a picture in the reader’s mind is what type of figurative language?

• Simile
• Idiom
• Personification
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A group of words used in a phrase or expression which means something different than what the words actually say is what kind of figurative language?

• Idiom
• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"She’s really in a pickle" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Imagery
• Idiom
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is which type of figurative language?

• Personification
• Imagery
• Assonance
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words is which type of figurative language?

• Assonance
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4