Figurative Language Quiz

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

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

The snow is a white blanket covering the grass.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

The ice in the arena was as smooth as glass.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Oxymoron

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

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

The bees buzzed as they flew around the garden.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

My plants are begging for water.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Lisa's lizards were leaping on her lawnchair.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

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

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