Figurative Language Quiz

Which poetic device is used in the following line: 'The wind whispered through the trees'?

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Which poetic device is used in the following line: 'I've told you a million times'?

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Which poetic device is used in the following line: 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'?

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Simile

Which poetic device is used in the following line: 'The bees buzzed by the flowers'?

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• alliteration

What is the term for a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'?

• metaphor

• analogy

• simile

• hyperbole

What is the term for giving human qualities to non-human objects or animals?

• zoomorphism

• anthropomorphism

• personification

• metamorphosis

What is the term for exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?

• understatement

• metaphor

• irony

• hyperbole

What is the term for the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words?

• assonance

• consonance

• alliteration

• rhyme

What is the term for words that imitate the sound they represent?

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole