Figurative Language Review

What is an example of a Metaphor?

• The pipe busted open.

• I am so hungry that I could eat a horse.

• I like school.

• This classroom is a zoo.

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What is an example of a simile?

• She is cute.

• What did you do today?

• She was as sweet as pie.

• Andy was a pig at dinner.

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What is this simile comparing?

"Her hair was like a birds nest"

• The girl and a bird

• Flying

• The girls hair and a birds nest

• Nest building skills

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What does this metaphor mean?

Julia is a chicken.

• Julia is scared

• Julia walks like a chicken

• Julia clucks like a chicken

• Julia plays with everyone

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What is the following an example of:

I must have slept 100 hours last night!

• simile

• onomatopeia

• hyperbole

• alliteration

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What is the following sentence an example of:

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

• onomatopeia

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

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"The house shivered as snow fell on its roof"

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

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crash, boom, bang, are examples of

• simile

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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Which is NOT an example of a simile?

• Her heart is like gold.

• He is as busy as a bee.

• Life is a rollercoaster.

• She is larger than life.

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This school is an asylum.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

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