Figurative Language PostTest

What is an extreme exaggeration

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

What is a direct comparison of two unlike things?

• alliteration

• idiom

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

A common saying with a meaning completely different from its dictionary meaning

• idiom

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

A comparison of two unlike things, using the words like or as.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

When the same sound is used at the beginning of many words in a sentence.

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

A word that represents a sound.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

When an object is given human qualities.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

"Can't we wait for the elevator?" Josh whined. "My legs are going to fall off if we take the stars."

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopeoia

• simile

"You did that for me?" Sara asked, raising her eyebrows in disbelief. "You're a peach!"

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Andrew's temper tantrum was truly terrible!

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration