Figurative Language Review

An extreme exaggeration is what type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A _____________ is when you compare two unlike things by saying one thing is another.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is called _____________.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A type of sound device in which two or more nearby words have the same beginning sound is called ______________.

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Sound words, or words that imitate noises or actions are called _____________.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Common sayings that have different meanings than what the words say are called_______________.

• Idioms

• Hyperboles

• Similes

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

A ________________ is when you compare two unlike things by using "like" or "as".

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What type of figurative language is the sentence below?

The large piece of furniture refused to budge.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figurative language is in the sentence below?

It felt like years had passed before their food finally arrived.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is in the sentence below?

After being unattended for a week, the plants were begging for water.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A