Figures of speech practice

Which figure of speech is the author using?

"I am so hungry I could eat a horse"

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which figure of speech is the author using?

"Do you want to be a failure for the rest of your life?"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Antithesis

• Rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Which figure of speech is the author using?

"Tom and John are as different as night and day"

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Repetition

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which figure of speech is the author using?

"The bomb went off with a loud bang"

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Which figure of speech is the author using?

"Nick needed new notebooks"

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Antithesis

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Which figure of speech is the author using?

"Robert was white as a sheet after he walked out of the horror movie"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Repetition

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Which figure of speech is the author using?

"The moon was playing hide and seek with the clouds"

• Antithesis

• Rhetorical question

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Which figure of speech is the author using?

"Speech is silver, but silence is gold."

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Which figure of speech is the speaker using?

"We will fight come what may, we will fight on all fronts, we will fight for a thousand years.”

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Repetition

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which figure of speech is the author using?

"Laura is a walking dictionary"

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4