Figurative Language Quiz

Life is a Highway by

Rascal Flatts

"Life is a highway; I'm going to ride it all night long!"

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

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What is an example of an alliteration

• I've told you to clean your room a million times!

• The marker I used was as black as coal!

• It's raining cats and dogs.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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What is an example of a personification

• Better late than never.

• Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.

• ZAP

• The wind howled in the night.

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Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• He's as lazy as a dog.

• My dad won't go hiking, he is a couch potato!

• She was as cold as ice.

• Her eyes shone like stars in the night.

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Roar by Katy Perry

"You're going to hear me ROAR!"

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

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What is an example of a metaphor.

• The snow is a white blanket.

• Your explanation is as clear as mud.

• My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

• BOOM

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What is an example of a simile.

• That child is a bear when he is sleepy.

• My Grandma is older than the hills.

• Rays of sunshine danced through the trees.

• An emerald is as green as grass.

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Boom Boom Pow by

The Black Eyed Peas

"I got that boom, boom, boom. That future boom, boom, boom"

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

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Fight Song by Rachel Platten

Like a small boat

On the ocean

Sending big waves

Into motion

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

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A Thousand Miles by

Vanessa Carlton

"You know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight."

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

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