Figurative Language Quiz Review

A dramatic exaggeration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two things using like or as

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A comparison of two things without using like or as

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving human qualities to non-human things

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"...until night folds it up and files it away" is an example of

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin." is an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Shapes like full-blown roses" is an example of

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Jumbo shrimp" is an example of_______.

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"I will die if my crush does not go to prom with me” is an example of_

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

• none of the above

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

High school teachers need to "raise the bar" for students, so they will be better prepared for career and college. In this sentence, "raise the bar" is an example of _____?

• simile

• idiom

• oxymoron

• none of these

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B