Figurative Language Skills Quiz

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

• comparing two things by using like or as

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

I bolted out the door like a horse leaving the gate for a race.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

This school is an asylum.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as

• repeating the same inital sound in neighboring words

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

My stomach did a backflip.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• a dramatic exaggeration

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

I waited a million years for my ride to get to the house.

• alliteration

• repetition

• idiom

• hyperbole

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• words or phrases that are contradictory

The rope SNAPPED in half, and the panic in the child's face was evident.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes

• comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• a dramatic exaggeration

• comparing two things by saying one is the other