Figurative Language Quiz

Match the following:

• idiom

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

• hyperbole

• Comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• an exaggeration

• personification

• A weird expression that means something other than what it actually says

• alliteration

• the repetition of the same beginning sound

Match the following

• hyperbole

• Ouch! That hurt.

• Onomatopoeia

• I’m as hungry as a pig.

• Alleration

• I just ate an icecream cone the size of Texas!

• Metaphor

• I am a bear.

• Simile

• Suzy sells seashells by the seashore.

I nearly died laughing is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

The flowers danced in the wind is an example of:

• Simile

• Personification

• Cliche

• Idiom

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things

• An exaggerated statement

"My monkey is making me mighty mad" is an example of what?

• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• alliteration

BAM!  The door shut behind me. 

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• simile
• idiom

I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

Repetition of beginning sounds in words

• Simile

• Onomatopeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Sound words

• Simile

• Onomatopeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration