Semester Exam Review

Match the following

• Exaggeration for effect

• Personification

• 1. A direct comparison

  between two things

• Simile

• 1. comparison using “like" or "as"

• Hyperbole

• 1. Words that

  sound like what they mean

• Metaphor

• 1. Giving human

  traits to something nonhuman

• Onomatopoeia

Match the following

• 1. descriptive language appealing to senses

• Symbolism

• using an image to represent an idea

• Alliteration

• 1. person, animal, or figure

  2. in a story

• Imagery

• 1. repetition of sounds at

  the beginning of

• Character

He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

I ordered online proofreading services with the click of a mouse.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

I’m hungry, Mother, I’m hungry…I’m so hungry I could eat a whole elephant!

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

The waves danced in the sunlight. 

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

It was lovely to wake up to the tweet of the birds outside my bedroom window.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

When I was a lad, I ate 4 dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I’m grown, I eat 5 dozen eggs, so I’m roughly the size of a barge.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

The salty-sweet caramel melted on her tongue.

• alliteration

• simile

• imagery

• personification