Figurative Language test

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resemebles the sound it represents

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words

• a large exageration

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using like or as
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• when the beginning sounds of words have the same sound

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other
• comparing two things by using like or as
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as

• repeating the same beginning sound in other words

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

What type of figurative language is shown?

The thunder boomed in the storm.

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is shown?

Pansy pranced playfully around the playground.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What type of figurative language is shown?

The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole