Figurative Language Vocabulary Test

a fact or idea stated directly

• Literal language

• Figurative Language

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

is used when the reader knows words do not carry their ordinary meaning

• Literal language

• Figurative Language

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

the repetition of an initial consonant sound

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

an exaggeration

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

a sound that imitates the sound it represents

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas)

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

words, phrases, or expressions, that are grammatically unusual, and their meaning cannot be taken literally

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

reference to a well-known person, place, thing, event, literary work, or work of art

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

compares two unlike things using like or as

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

compares two unlike thing without using like or as

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D