Figurative Language Quiz

A comparison of two things that does not use like or as is a/an  ____________________.

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The snow is a white blanket covering the grass.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The ice in the arena was as smooth as glass.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

 My teacher is so old, she remembers when the dinosaurs died.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The bees buzzed as they flew around the garden.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

My plants are begging for water.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Lisa's lizards were leaping on her lawnchair.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A metaphor...

• Compares 2 things using "like" or "as"

• Compares 2 things without using "like" or "as"

• Giving human characteristics to something non-human.

• Is word play or a joke

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Hyperbole is...

• An extreme exaggeration

• Giving human characteristics to something non-human

• Saying the opposite of what you mean

• Using words that all have the same starting sound

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A