Figurative Language Test

The football player was as big as a house. The talented girl played soccer like a boss.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Jumbo shrimp/Pretty ugly

• understatement

• alliteration

• idiom

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

He is a shining star. Time is a thief.

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The thunder clouds laughed at the people trying to run for cover from the rain.

• irony

• personification

• oxymoron

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Let's taco about it. This vacuum sucks.

• idiom

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

It's raining cats and dogs.

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

BOOM! POW! WHACK!

• simile

• pun

• onomatopoeia

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

It's raining cats and dogs.

• irony

• idiom

• pun

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

When something happens that is the OPPOSITE of what you thought would happen.

• understatement

• metaphor

• pun

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.

• hyperbole

• simile

• pun

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4