Figurative Language Quiz

"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

"Boom" is an example of what?

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

What is the word in color an example of?

Mr. Lawson was walking down the hallway when all of a sudden, BAM! One of his students ran right into him.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Compares two things using the words “like” or “as”

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

A huge exaggeration

• idiom

• hyperbole

• personification

A comparison of two things when the writer says that something is actually something else.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Giving human characteristics to an inhuman object.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Words that say the sound they make (buzz, hiss)

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

When several words begin with the same sound.

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration