Figurative Language Review

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

​There were at least ten trillion people shopping at the mall on Black Friday.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Rhyme

True or False: A metaphor uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.

• True

• False

What is the following an example of: Sam was like a mad bull when he saw his wrecked car.

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Metaphor

What is the following an example of: The music begged us to dance to its upbeat tune.

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

What is the following an example of: Be sure to zip your jacket. It’s cold outside.

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Rhyme

In Chapter 1 of Frightful’s Mountain, when the author writes, “creee, creee, creee, car-reet,” she is using _________ to indicate the special way that Frightful communicates with Sam Gribley.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

What does the underlined word mean? The frigid air seemed to suck his breathe away as he attempted to finish his first snowman of the season.

• deficient

• sappy

• hot

• cold

True or False: A line of poetry can have a word inside a line that rhymes with the last word on the same line.

• True

• False

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence? ​Life is a curly slide, full of twists and turns.

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

On page 217, Curtis writes, “…my heart jumped down into my stomach.” Which literary device is he using?

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile