Figurative Language Quiz

Match the following terms to their definitions:

• a direct comparison of unlike things (using is/are)

• Metaphor

• sound words

• Onomatopoeia

• a direct comparison using like or as

• Simile

• giving human characteristics to nonhumans

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• a phrase that means something different than its official meaning

• Hyperbole

• repeated consonant sounds

• idiom

• an extreme exaggeration

• imagery

• using descriptive words to paint a picture

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

All the beautiful stars of the sky, The

silver doves of the forest of Night,

Over the dull earth swarm and fly,

Companions of our flight.

-James Thomson

What two things are being compared in the

metaphor above?

• Stars and Sky

• birds and companions

• stars and birds

• night and flight

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

We will rush ever on without fear; Let

the goal be far, the flight be fleet! For we

carry the Heavens with us, dear,

While the Earth slips from our feet!

-James Thomson

Fear, far, flight, fleet, feet... is an example of what type of figurative language?

•  Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

 Life without love is a year without Summer

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The line above is an example of which figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

...all the memories that hang upon

And cling around about us as a garment,

Clothing us in a robe of more than glory...

-Edgar Allen Poe

The memories cling around us as a garment

(clothing) is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

 The leaves fly over the window and

utter a word as they pass...

-D. H. Lawrence

This is an example of which figurative language?

•  personification

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

My father was the sun and the moon to me. 

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

After the drought, the rain seemed like an old friend who had finally found us.

• simile

• personification

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

He was a library of information when it came to baseball. 

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3