Figurative Language Quiz

My stomach is in knots.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

When we told the secret, we let the cat out of the bag.

• Personification

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Last night, I slept like a log.

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

They wore jeans, which made me stand out like a sore thumb.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Simile

It took forever to find you.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

It’s the worst day of my entire life!

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

I woke up at school in a slobbery pool; though I used to be dry, now I’m drowning in drool.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Metaphor

The girls played patty-cake on the park bench.

• Allusion

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

The middle schoolers were scared of the new substitute who reminded them of Cruella DeVille.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Metaphor

My students misbehaved in the assembly, so when we returned to the classroom I became Hitler, and they understood that I meant business.

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Idiom