Figurative Language Review

What is figurative language? Select all that apply.

• Language that uses words or expressions that are different from what is actually meant.

• Language that makes reading more interesting.

• Language that makes writing more interesting.

What is the following sentence an example of:

That girl is as sneaky as a snake!

• metaphor

• simile

• pun

• proverb

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

• A metaphor uses "like" or "as," but a simile does not.

• A metaphor is a direct comparison, but a simile uses "like" or "as."

• A metaphor exaggerates the truth, but a simile does not.

• A metaphor uses a play on words, but a simile does not.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the following an example of:

I must have slept 100 hours last night!

• simile

• proverb

• hyperbole

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When you give human characteristics to something not human

• hyperbole

• personification

• rhyme

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is the following sentence an example of:

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

• pun

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does the following sentence really mean?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

• If you eat right, you won't need to go to the doctor as often.

• You should bring apples to the doctor's office with you.

• Doctors are afraid of apples.

• You should eat nothing but apples every day.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Match the following expressions with their correct description.

• Her cheeks are red like a rose.

• personification

• The wind whispered through the trees.

• idiom

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

• simile

• Two heads are better than one!

• hyperbole

"The house shivered as snow fell on its roof" is an example of (a)   .

• simile
• personification
• alliteration
• idiom

crash, boom, bang, are examples of

• simile

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5