Figurative Language Quiz

The alligator's teeth are white daggers is a:

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The snow danced around in the wind.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

My tennis shoes stuck out their tongues at my stinky feet after running the mile.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Jumbo shrimp, deafening silence.

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"Brownies are happiness" is an example of:

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

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

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The crazy car is colorful.

• simile
• alliteration
• personification
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repeating the same consonant at the beginning words or lines.  

• rhyme 
• alliteration 
• assonance 
• simile 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Giving human characteristics or qualities to an object, idea, or even an animal 

• onomatopoeia 
• sensory detail
• hyperbole 
• personification 

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A type of word that sounds like the thing it is describing. 

• alliteration 
• simile 
• hyperbole 
• onomatopoeia 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5