Figurative Language Quiz

"Hold your horses", said Nick

• Simile

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

James and Ginger jogged through the gym.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison not using "like" or "as"

• Giving human qualities to an object

• A meaning other than the dictionary meaning

• An extreme exaggeration

Max slurped up every last drop of his milkshake.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

The principal was so shocked that his jaw dropped to the floor.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

What is a hyperbole?

• A meaning other than the dictionary meaning

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• An extreme exaggeration

• A comparison that does not use "like" or "as"

I wish this test was over. I have butterflies in my stomach.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Idiom

A ______ is a comparison of two things using "like" or "as".

• Simile
• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

_______ are words or phrases that appeal to the five senses: touch, taste, see, smell, and hear.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Sally sells seashells by the seashore is an example of _______________

• Hyperbole
• SImile

• Idiom

• Alliteration