
Figurative Language and Literary Devices
Authored by Laura Ballard
English
7th - 9th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Idiom
Onomatopeia
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An object or animal spoken of as if it has human feelings, thoughts or attitude
Alliteration
Idiom
Personification
Simile
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Overstating something, usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant
to be understood as literally true
Alliteration
Idiom
Hyperbole
Figure of Speech
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different
from the literal meaning of the words
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Idiom
Personification
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5B
CCSS.L.5.5B
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, resembles or than
Metaphor
Simile
Allusion
Personification
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is
said to be another thing
Analogy
Simile
Allusion
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
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