Figurative Language Review - 7th

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

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

A hyperbole is ___.

• repeating the beginning sound in words.

• giving human qualities to animals or objects.

• an exaggeration.

• a word that imitates the sound that it represents.

Repeating the beginning sound in words is ___.

• personification.

• onomatopoeia.

• hyperbole.

• alliteration.

A comparison using the words "like" or "as" is a ___.

• simile.

• metahor.

• hyperbole.

• alliteration.

A comparison where one thing is said to be another is a ___. It does not use "like" or "as" in the comparison.

• simile.

• metaphor.

• hyperbole.

• onomatopoeia.

A phrase that has a different meaning than what is actually written is an ___.

• simile.

• metaphor.

• idiom.

• hyperbole.

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Explain the meaning of the following simile.

The road was as flat as a pancake.

• The road was the color of a pancake.

• The road had a lot of bumps.

• The road was very flat.

• The road was in Waco.

The following example of figurative from "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds is ___.

"That's my comeback. Said it a gazillion times."

• personification.

• hyperbole.

• simile.

• metaphor.

Explain the meaning of the following metaphor.

Todd is a walking dictionary!

• Todd knows the meaning of many words.

• Todd has a dictionary with him.

• Todd looks like a dictionary.

• Todd is actually a dictionary.