Figurative Language Test

a way of describing something by comparing it with something else using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

My words are little jars

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

to compare something that is not human as if it had human characteristics

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A way of describing something by comparing it to something else

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

jet-black night; / It stares through the window-pane

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the stars threw down their spears

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Repetition of the first consonant

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The repetition of internal vowel sounds. Doesn't have to rhyme!!

• assonance

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4