Figurative Language Quiz

What type of figurative language is the underlined phrase...

"The little dog had leaped the fence like a gazelle."

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

What type of figurative language is the underlined phrase...

"Her arms were a chain and padlock around Brutus."

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

What type of figurative language is underlined?

"I could hear the loud booms across town."

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Idiom

What type of figurative language is underlined?

"She turned onto Applegate Avenue."

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Idiom

What type of figurative language is underlined?

"I've been chasing him forever!"

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is underlined?

"My ears searched for signs of life."

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Similie

What type of figurative language is the underlined phrase?

"It's raining cats and dogs outside."

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

Which figurative language compares two things, without using the words "like" and "as"?

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Similie

• Personification

What figurative language gives inanimate objects a human/person characteristics?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

What figurative language means "to exaggerate"?

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor