Practice & Review Types of Figurative Language

What is it called when an animal object or idea is given the qualities of a human?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following is the language that appeals to the senses?

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.W.7.3D

I didn’t mean to rain on your parade. -What makes this sentence a idiom?

• It isn’t an idiom.

• It uses the words “to” and “on”.

• It uses a phrase that doesn’t actually mean what it says.

• It is a sentence that has an event involved in it.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

That locker is so messy, the public health department declared it a health hazard. What makes this sentence a hyperbole?

• It uses the word like

• It uses the word as

• It is an exaggeration

• It is a sound

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Select the Simile:

• The stars look like diamonds in the sky

• Her face turned purple in the cold

• *Crackle*

• Her smile lit up the room

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Select the Alliteration:

• She’s in hot water

• *Boom!*

• The girl grabs the gnome in the garden to glorify its gown

• He has a heart of gold

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language uses descriptive words like “BOOM!” or “ZAP!”?

• Idioms

• Onomatopoeia

• Smilie

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Select the Metaphor:

• Poor as dirt

• Sally sold seashells by the seashore

• The classroom was as cold as a freezer

• Life is a rollercoaster

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

After school, Bob was as free as a bird. - What makes this sentence a simile?

• It uses the word “after”

• It calls Bob a bird

• It uses the word “as”

• It is not a simile

• I really have no idea sorry

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Train is to tracks as car is to

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CCSS.L.7.5B