Figurative Language Quiz

Compares 2 different things using "like" or '"as".

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An extreme exaggeration.

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A word that represents a sound.

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Using very descriptive language.

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Compares 2 different things without "like" or "as".

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Repeated consonant sound throughout a sentence.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that mean something different than the literal meaning.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which type of figurative language?

John was so tired he could have slept for a year.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human characteristics to non-human objects.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which type of figurative language?

The girl was as bright as the sun.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4