Figurative Language Test Review 3

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An expression that means something more than the literal definition

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Her face is as red as Dorthy's slippers.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

• idiom

• pun

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

This house makes the White House look like a cottage

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

using two describing words together that are complete opposites of one another

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

a humorous play on words

• pun

• personification

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The popular TV program features the 'living dead'.

• Symbolism
• Irony
• Oxymoron
• Synechdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

It was clear from the madman's rant that he wasn't playing with a full deck.

• Pun
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Hannah’s home has heat, hopefully.

• Alliteration
• Pun
• Assonance
• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4