Figurative Language Quiz

Tommy is a bull in a china shop.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Gabby gulped down the Mountain Dew.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Allusion

He told the actors to "break a leg" for good luck before the play began.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

Sally sold seashells by the seashore.

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

What is the definition of personification?

• an exaggeration

• the repetition of the same beginning sound

• A weird expression that means something other than what it actually says

• Comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

Pick the best description for a metaphor

• Comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• the repetition of the same beginning sound

• an exaggeration

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

Pick the best definition for idiom

• An exaggeration

• A weird expression that means something other than what it actually says

• Comparison using "like" or "as"

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

Write a sentence using a metaphor

Write a sentence using simile.

Why do writers use figurative language when they tell a story? Think about how the figurative language in The Tell-Tale Heart or Eleven made effected the story?

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