Poetry and Figurative Language Quiz

What is a hyperbole?

• A comparison using like or as

• a funny exaggeration

• words that resemble the sound they describe

• when you give human like qualities to something that is not human.

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using like or as

• a comparison not using like or as

• a funny exaggeration

• words that resemble the sound they describe

What is an idiom?

• an expression that is not meant to be taken literally

• a funny exaggeration

• words that resemble the sound they describe

• a comparison using like or as

What is onomatopoeia?

• A funny exaggeration

• a comparison of two nouns that does not use like or as

• Words that resemble the sound they describe

• When you give something not human, human like qualities.

What is personification?

• A funny exaggeration

• A comparison of two nouns that do not use like or as

• When you give human like qualities to something that is not human.

• Words that resemble the sound they describe.

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two nouns that do not use like or as.

• A comparison using the words like or as

• Words that resemble the sound they describe

• A funny exaggeration.

This sentence is an example of...?

Charming children chat in the corner.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

This sentence is an example of...?

My life is a dream of wonders.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

This sentence is an example of...?

The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains,

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

This sentence is an example of...?

The fly buzzed past us.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia