Figurative Language Assessment

"Life is like a box of chocolates" is considered what type of figurative language?

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

A ​ (a)   is a comparison between two unlike things using the words ​ (b)   or ​ (c)   .

• simile
• like
• as
• metaphor
• but
• how
• hyperbole
• has

He did stack the piles of shingles, but almost cried when a nail bit his thumb.

What figurative language does this sentence from Born Worker contain?

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

The black algae came up like a foamy monster.

This sentence is an example of a ___________.

• simile

• metaphor

• inference

• hyperbole

Non-Human Things compared with human characteristics. Is ________ .

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

This image is an example of _______.

c

hyperbole

metaphor

inference

personification

Which is an example of a metaphor?

• My mouth was as dry as the desert.

• It is very dry in the desert.

• My mouth was a desert.

A word that imitates sound

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

"Penelope put pennies in the pie" is an example of:

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Choose the idiom example

• Letting the cat out of the bag

• Telling a secret