Figurative Language: MASTER Review

Time flies by! Is an example of....

• idiom
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

What is a comparison using like or as?

• metaphor
• simile
• imagery
• cliche'

That fat cat weighs a thousand pounds! This is an example of ...... 

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• simile

"The city was a jungle" is an example of what? This is an example of ...... 

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

After returning home from a long vacation, Mrs. Burkhardt said, "There's no place like home." She's making an ALLUSION to _____ to show that like Dorothy, she likes to travel but is happy to be home.

• The Wizard of Oz
• Star Wars
• Divergent
• Kanye West

  A reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, sports or the arts is known as a(n) _______.

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• allusion

Suzanne Collins includes the figurative language, "Most of the other tributes sit alone, like lost sheep," (97) to...

• make the reader see that Katniss and Peeta look silly for spending so much time together.
• make the reader understand how isolated all of the tributes feel, working against each other.
• bring in references to farm animals and the other tributes as they sit and each lunch for the reader.
• show the reader how the other tributes act around each other and how they are ludicrously by themselves.

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things

• An exaggerated statement

Irony

A pilot with a fear of heights is....

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• none of the above

Irony

In the movie, "Toy Story", human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move but the audience is.

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony