Figurative Language Quiz

What is a simile?

• comparing two things without using like or as

• comparing two things using like or as

• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things without using like or as

• comparing two things using like or as

• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an oxymoron?

• comparing two things using like or as

• an exaggeration

• when words or a phrase contradict each other; ex. 'less is more'

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is an onomatopoeia?

• when words or a phrase contradict each other; ex. 'less is more'

• a word that represents a sound; ex. Bang!

• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a hyperbole?

• when two words or a phrase contradict each other; ex. 'less is more'

• a phrase that has a figurative, not literal meaning

• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an idiom?

• a phrase that has a figurative, not literal meaning

• comparing two things using like or as

• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is personification?

• a word that represents a sound

• an exaggeration

• giving human characteristics to something not human

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"Her smile was a mile wide." This is an example of...

• onomatopoeia because it has a word that represents a sound

• simile because it compares two things using like or as

• hyperbole because it's an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Her heart cried when she realized that her pet cat was missing." This is an example of...

• personification because it's giving human characteristics to something not human

• metaphor because it's comparing two things without using like or as

• onomatopoeia because it has a word that represents a sound

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"Splat! I finally hit the pesky fly with my fly swatter." This is an example of...

• personification because it's giving human characteristics to something not human

• onomatopoeia because it has a word that represents a sound

• hyperbole because it's an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5