Figurative Language Quiz

What is personification?

• Giving human characteristics to non-human objects or animals

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• An exaggeration for effect

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

What is a metaphor?

• A direct comparison without using "like" or "as"

• Giving human characteristics to non-human objects or animals

• The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words

• Words that imitate sounds

What is hyperbole?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• An extreme exaggeration used to make a point

• The repetition of sounds at the end of words

• Giving human qualities to animals or objects

What is a simile?

• A comparison that uses "like" or "as"

• An extreme exaggeration

• Giving human qualities to non-human things

• The repetition of consonant sounds

What is onomatopoeia?

• The repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words

• Words that imitate the sound they represent

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• Giving objects human characteristics

What is alliteration?

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• A type of metaphor

• An extreme exaggeration

• Words that sound like what they mean

What defines rhyme?

• The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words

• The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words

• The use of words that imitate sounds

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

What is repetition?

• The use of the same word or phrase more than once for emphasis

• The matching of sounds at the end of lines

• Giving human traits to non-human entities

• A direct comparison between two things

Which of the following is an example of a simile?

• "He is as brave as a lion."

• "Time is a thief."

• "The wind whispered through the trees."

• "Boom! The door slammed shut."

Which literary device is used in the phrase "The silky, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain"?

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole