Unit 4 Study Guide

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Simile

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(b) Metaphor

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(c) Hyperbole

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(d) Allusion

• Life is like

• I'm so hungry I could eat a horse
• His heart is a stone

• He's a real Scrooge when it comes to money

• Her eyes are the windows to her soul

• That's his Achilles' heel

• The world is like a stage

• I have a million things to do
• Love is a battlefield

• Her smile is like sunshine

• She's a real Cinderella story

• The classroom is a zoo

• I've told you a million times
• He's a real Einstein when it comes to math

• Time is a thief

• The city is like a jungle

• The bag weighed a ton
• I'm dying of thirst
• She's a real Romeo when it comes to romance

• His voice is as smooth as silk

Identify what figurative language is in bold.

I knew we had finally left the city when I could hear the gentle moo of the cows in the field. 

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• metaphor

Identify what figurative language is in bold.

Go ahead, ask me anything. I’m like Google over here.

• allusion

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Identify what figurative language is in bold.

“My shoes danced across the floor in time with the music."     

• allusion

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Identify what figurative language is in bold.

"The students claimed they had a million assignments, but they made no effort to do them on time."

• metaphor
• simile
• irony
• hyperbole

Identify what figurative language is in bold.

Her laughter was a melody that filled the room.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Identify what figurative language is in bold.

His words were a sharp sword, cutting deeply.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Identify what figurative language is in bold.

The sun kissed the ocean, turning the water to gold.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Identify what figurative language is in bold.

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; being purged, a fire sparkling in Lovers eyes.” 

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Identify what figurative language is in bold.

 ”By heaven! when she vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron seething over the intense ire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises.” 

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole