Figurative Language Quiz

What is figurative language?

• A type of communication that is used only in everyday language

• A type of communication that uses words or phrases' strict or realistic meaning

• A type of communication that is used only in songs and poetry

• A type of communication that does not use words or phrases' strict or realistic meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Why is figurative language used?

• To make reading more difficult to understand

• To make the writing or speaking more creative

• To confuse the readers

• To follow the rules of grammar

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Which type of figurative language is an exaggeration?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language compares two unlike things NOT using like or as?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• Giving human traits to an animal or a non-living thing

• Words that sound like the sound they are describing

• An exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What is a hyperbole?

• Giving human traits to an animal or a non-living thing

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• An exaggeration

• Words that sound like the sound they are describing

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is alliteration ?

• The repetition of the same sound within a group of words

• Giving human traits to an animal or a non-living thing

• An exaggeration

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like the sound they are describing

• An exaggeration

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• Giving human traits to an animal or a non-living thing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which type of figurative language gives human traits to an animal or a non-living thing?

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A