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

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

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Which type of figurative language is an exaggeration?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

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

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

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

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

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

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

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

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile