Blast to FAST - Figurative Language

Which figure of speech uses like or as in its comparison?

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• exaggeration

Choose which figure of speech appears in this sentence: The raindrops danced and jumped on the window.

• exaggeration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Which of the following is a simile?

• his feet were shapeless lumps of meat

• his eyes were like the eyes of a wounded deer

• Soul and body walked or crawled side by side, yet apart, so slender was the thread that bound them

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• his feet were shapeless lumps of meat (par 37)

• his eyes were like the eyes of a wounded deer (par 8)

• Soul and body walked or crawled side by side, yet apart, so slender was the thread that bound them (par 32)

Which of the following is personification?

• his feet were shapeless lumps of meat

• his eyes were like the eyes of a wounded deer

• Soul and body walked or crawled side by side, yet apart, so slender was the thread that bound them

Choose which figure of speech appears in this sentence: She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show. 

• metaphor

• exaggeration

• simile

• personification

Giving human qualities to something that is not human ...

• simile

• personification

• metator

• exaggeration

When an author uses words in an imaginative way to express meanings beyond the literal meanings ... 

• figurative langauge

• literal language

Choose which figure of speech appears in this sentence: Jake was like a whirlwind, rushing from one activity to the next.

• exaggeration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

When a writer uses words according to their dictionary definition... 

• figurative language

• literal language