Identifying Types of Figurative Language QUIZ

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using as, like, or than

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Words that sound like their meaning

• A comparison between two things not using like or as

Alliteration is...

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• a comparison using like or as

• repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that sound like their meaning

An exaggerated statement is a...

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does not use like, as, or than

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A comparison that does use like, as, or than

• words that sound like their meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like what they mean

• an exaggerated statement

• a comparison using like, as, or than

• an expression not meant to be taken literally (ex. On cloud 9, raining cats and dogs)

Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is...

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

Two words that have opposite or very different meanings

• Couplet

• Imagery

• Oxymorons

• Limerick

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Involves one or more of your five senses - the abilities to hear, taste, touch, smell, and see. An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses and to help create mental pictures.

• Imagery
• tone
• mood
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.W.6.3D

An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. They are overused expressions.

• Idiom
• mood
• allusion
• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work, (literary, biblical, and mythological).

• hyperbole
• imagery
• allusion
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4