Figurative Language Test Review

Beginning letter sound repeated two or more times

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Compares two thing using the words "like" or "as"

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Compares two thing NOT using the words "like" or "as" ; instead uses "is", "are", "was", or "were"

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Exaggeration ; stretching the truth

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Paints a picture in your mind using sensory describing words (5 senses - see, hear, smell, taste, touch)

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Thing that is acting or feeling like a person

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Word that is also a sound

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I Made Myself A Snowball

By Shel Silverstein

1 I made myself a snowball,

2 As perfect as could be,

3 I thought I'd keep it as a pet,

4 And let it sleep with me.

5 I made it some pajamas,

6 And a pillow for its head,

7 Then last night it ran away,

8 But first - it wet the bed!

Lines 7 & 8 are an example of ...

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

“Trees”

By Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see

A poem as lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed,

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts its leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear,

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain,

Who intimately lives with rain;

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

Which is an example of a simile?

• And lifts its leafy arms to pray

• A poem as lovely as a tree

• A nest of robins in her hair

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Slippery Stairs

Sliding down the foyer stairs

Each step was slick as snow

At the bottom my brother stood

With a snicker I should know.

I yelled for him to quickly move

Thinking he would step aside

Instead he opened the front door

Slamming it once I flew outside!

The above poem is an example of ...

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5