Figurative Language Review Test

Which word describes language that paints a picture in your mind, appealing directly to your senses?

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What's that super dramatic way of talking that's not just big, it's HUGE, to make things more exciting or emphasize a point?

• assonance

• repetition

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What's it called when we give human-like qualities to non-living objects? Imagine your laptop yawning when it boots up slowly!

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A DIRECT comparison of two seemingly unlike things.

• idiom

• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What's the term for a word that mimics a sound? Think of comics!

• assonance

• hyperbole

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What's the term for when you hear the same starting sound dancing at the beginning of words close to each other, like 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'?

• simile

• imagery

• consonance

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What's the term for the catchy repetition of inner vowel sounds in words close to each other?

• assonance

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Buzz - says the great buzzing bee." Can you guess which figure of speech this is?

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The air is like a butterfly" - Can you guess the figure of speech used here?

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Imagine the wind standing tall and shouting out loud! What literary device is being used here?

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D