Figurative Language Quiz

How does imagery help us understand the story?

• It doesn't
• By expressing how the author is feeling
• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see
• By telling the mood

Which of these is the best definition of imagery?

• anything that is literal

• giving a human trait to something non-human

• language that appeals to the reader's five senses

• descriptions that are not literally true

Which one is alliteration?

• She's tame and he's lame. Both are not the same.

• When I got there, everyone was done.

• Shazam!

• Look! Larry lost Lucy, but luckily he located her.

An onomatopoeia is also known as what?

• An action word
• A descriptive word
• A sound word
• A statement

Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of nearby words.

• True
• False

using the same word, line, phrase, or stanza more than once

• simile

• repetition

a group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in prose

• hyperbole

• stanza

the main message, the lesson learned

• idiom

• theme

Which words rhyme?

• tall : walk

• cute : flute

• star : sky

• sun : flower

Which sense does this phrase appeal to?

A loud bang!

• sight

• hear

• tough

• taste