Figurative Language Vocabulary Quiz

You were as brave as a lion.

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Rays of sunshine danced through the trees

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

He feels buried under a mountain of work.

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Words that appeal to your sense of hearing, touch, taste, smell, and sight are

• simile

• sensory language

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

You should bite your tongue.

• simile

• hyberbole

• idiom

• sensory language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Life is a highway.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said this butter is bitter.

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A type of language that uses figures of speech to give a picture or image for stronger effects is called

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• simile

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Words that help you form mental images or pictures of things.

• figurative language

• metaphor

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Baa", ribbit, bow-wow, and kaboon

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5