Figurative Language Quiz

What is the term for comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

What is the term for using words or phrases to describe something as if it were something else?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

What is the term for exaggerating to emphasize a point or create humor?

• overstatement

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• understatement

What is the term for giving human qualities to non-human things?

• personification

• humanization

• anthropocentrism

• anthropomorphism

Which figurative language technique is used in the sentence: 'Her smile was as bright as the sun'?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

Which figurative language technique is used in the sentence: 'The wind whispered through the trees'?

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Which figurative language technique is used in the sentence: 'I've told you a million times'?

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Which figurative language technique is used in the sentence: 'The flowers danced in the breeze'?

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Identify the figurative language technique used in the sentence: 'The waves crashed against the shore like angry giants.'

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Identify the figurative language technique used in the sentence: 'The stars winked at me from the night sky.'

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification