Figurative Language Quiz

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• alliteration

• pun

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The stars in the sky winked," is an example of what type of figurative language?

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Is your nose running? You'd better catch it!" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• methaphor

• idiom

• pun

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

What type of figurative language is a word imitating a sound?

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• pun

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"The library is like a ghost town" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Explain the meaning of the metaphor below.

Todd is a walking dictionary!

• Todd has a dictionary with him.

• Todd looks like a dictionary.

• Todd knows the meaning of many words.

• Todd knows how to use a dictionary.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A hyperbole is....

• repeating the beginning sound in words

• giving human qualities to animals or objects

• a word that imitates the sound that it represents

• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"It's gonna be a piece of cake!" is an example of what type of figurative langguage?

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Repeating the beginning sound in words is ...

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• pun

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"My homework pile is a mile high" is what type of figurative language?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A