Figurative Language Review quiz

What best defines a Simile?

• Repetition of the same initial consonant sound

• Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Personal/human traits or characteristics to nonhumans

• Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

What is an example of a metaphor?

• I am so hungry I could eat a cow

• The sky misses the sun at night

• The world is my oyster

• Busy as a bee

Definition of a Hyperbole

• An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• Meaning of a word suggested by its name

• Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

• An example of a quadrilateral

Which is an example of a Onomatopoeia?

• Bow! Pow! Boom!

• Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore

• You are my sunshine

• The trees danced in the wind

Which is an example of a hyperbole?

• Im so hungry I could eat a horse

• Fido barked and went ruff

• The clouds were as fluffy as cotton candy

• You are my sunshine

Define Personification

• Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

• An extreme exaggeration

• Meaning of a word suggested by its name

• Personal/human traits or characteristics to nonhumans

Define Alliteration

• An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• Repetition of the same initial consonant sound

• Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• All of the above

Define Oxymoron

• Meaning of a word suggested by its name

• Phrase that is made up by words that mean the opposite

• Phrase that has no literal meaning to what it is describing, but it implies facts/story behind it

• Used to express an abstract ideas using an item or words