Figurative Language Review LRT 1

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things that says one thing is the other

• An exaggerated statement

"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."

What is being personified?

• The walls

• The scream

• The room

• The orange

Which is an example of personification?

• A rose by any other name is just as sweet

• The white clouds raced swiftly across the sky

• That is the ugliest car that I ever saw.

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman object or animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Something that represents something else by resembling it, or association with it, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbol

• None of the above

What is a simile? 

• Comparing two unlike things without  using  like and as
• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two unlike things using  like and as
• None of the above

What is an example of an alliteration?

• The vase flew off of the shelf. 
• Powerful pandas punch parrots.
• The plant liked to fly.
• I like to eat pie

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor