Figurative Language Practice Quiz

Comparing two or more things using "like" or "as".

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Attribute human characteristics to something that is not human.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Literary device that uses similar phonetic sounds in continuity to make an effect.

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A common way of saying something using a phrase.

• Simile

• Personification

• Idioms

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is being personified?

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

Be not her maid, since she is envious”

• Moon

• Grief

• Envy

• Sickness

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is being personified?

"said the sunflowers, shining with dew.

“Our traveling habits have tired us.

Can you give us a room with a view?”

• Dew

• Sunflowers

• Room

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Identify the similes in the following sentences.

Kitty is as proud as a peacock.

Sruthy works like a sloth.

• proud as a peacock

  works like a sloth

• Sruthy works

  Kitty is as proud

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

                Identify the similes in the following sentences.

Iniyan is always as busy as a bee.

My cousin chatters like a monkey.

• Iniyan is always as

  My cousin chatters

• as busy as a bee

  chatters like a monkey

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Write the alliteration found in the line:

•The wind swayed softly and smoothly.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Write the alliteration found in the line:

•He held her hands.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4