Figurative Language Review

Match the following terms to their definitions:

• sound words

• Onomatopoeia

• a direct comparison using like or as

• Metaphor

• giving human characteristics to nonhumans

• Personification

• a direct comparison of unlike things (using is/are)

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• using descriptive words to paint a picture

• Hyperbole

• a phrase that means something different than its official meaning

• alliteration

• an extreme exaggeration

• idiom

• repeated consonant sounds

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

All the beautiful stars of the sky, The (a)  

• Stars and Sky
• birds and companions
• stars and birds
• night and flight

We will rush ever on without fear; Let

the goal be far, the flight be fleet! For we

carry the Heavens with us, dear,

While the Earth slips from our feet!

-James Thomson

Fear, far, flight, fleet, feet... is an example of what type of figurative language?

 Life without love is a year without Summer

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The line above is an example of which figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

(a)   all the memories that hang upon

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

 The leaves fly over the window and (a)  

•  personification
• alliteration
• simile
• hyperbole

My father was the sun and the moon to me.  (a)  

• hyperbole
• personification
• simile
• metaphor

After the drought, the rain seemed like an old friend who had finally found us.

• simile

• personification

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

He was a library of information when it came to baseball. 

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5