Figurative Language Quiz

Two things are being compared without using "like" "as".

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Giving human traits to objects or ideas

• proverb

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• pun

Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect

• simile

• idiom

• understatement

• hyperbole

A form of "word play" in which words have a double meaning

• idiom

• proverb

• pun

• oxymoron

A figurative saying in which a bit of "wisdom" is given.

• simile

• idiom

• proverb

• oxymoron

A saying that isn't meant to be taken literally

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• proverb

Expression with less strength than expected. The opposite of hyperbole

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• understatement

• idiom

Comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification

When two words are put together that contradict each other

• pun

• oxymoron

• understatement

• onomatopoeia

A word that makes or create a sound

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• pun

• onomatopoeia