Figurative Language Quiz

What is a simile?

• A type of fruit

• A type of dance

• A type of vehicle

• A figure of speech that compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

Can you give an example of a simile?

• Her eyes sparkled like diamonds.

• The water was as clear as mud

• The wind whispered like a screaming banshee

• His smile was as bright as a potato

What is a metaphor?

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing.

• A type of dance

• A type of car

• A type of fruit

Can you give an example of a metaphor?

• She is a ray of sunshine.

• The world is a stage.

• The sun is shining.

• The cat is fast as lightning.

What is personification?

• Giving animal qualities to non-living objects

• Giving inanimate objects human characteristics

• Using similes to describe human emotions

• Giving human qualities to non-human objects or ideas

Can you give an example of personification?

• The wind whispered through the trees.

• The car zoomed down the road.

• The sun is shining brightly.

• The cat sat on the mat.

What is hyperbole?

• A form of poetry

• A type of vegetable

• An exaggeration for emphasis or effect

• A scientific theory

Can you give an example of hyperbole?

• Her backpack weighed nothing.

• Her backpack weighed a feather.

• Her backpack weighed a pound.

• Her backpack weighed a ton.

What is alliteration?

• Repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of closely connected words

• Repetition of the same sound or letter at the end of closely connected words

• Using different sounds or letters at the beginning of closely connected words

• Repetition of the same sound or letter in the middle of closely connected words

Can you give an example of alliteration?

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.