MCA Reading Test-Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• A comparison using like or as

• Giving human characteristics to a non-living thing

• Words that imitate sounds

• A comparison using was or is

What do we call words that imitate sounds? (like "bang", "zip", or "crash")

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

What is alliteration?

• comparing things using like or as

• repeating the first sound many times in a sentence

• an exaggeration

• a phrase that doesn't mean what it says

What is a phrase that means something other than what is actually said (like couch potato)

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

What is a hyperbole?

• Something that does not mean what the words describe.

• An exaggeration

• A comparison using was or is

• A word that describes a sound

simile or metaphor: "He is a night owl because he stays up late."

The cupcake yelled, "Don't eat me!" as Mr. Carpenter sunk in his teeth.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

What does this simile mean? "My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores."

• Her hair is red

• She talks really loudly

• She gets really angry

• She spits when she talks

"Out of the blue, a time machine appeared in my living room,"

• Out of the blue is a simile

• Out of the blue is an idiom

• Out of the blue is personification

• Out of the blue is hyperbole

"Quick as a bunny" is an example of...

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia