Figurative Language QUIZ

What is the term for repeated consonant sound in a line of poetry?

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

Language where the words mean their usual, dictionary meaning.

• literal language

• figurative language

A simile is ...

• when the word is the same as the sound it is representing

• a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• an implied comparison between two unlike things

• an extreme exaggeration

A new term made up of opposite or contradicting words.

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Repeated vowel sound in a line of poetry.

• assonance

• consonance

• simile

• metaphor

A huge exaggeration is a

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

Repeated first sound in a line of poetry is

• hyperbole

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Language where words take on a symbolic, implied, or suggested meaning.

• Literal language

• Figurative language

A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.

• Literal language

• Figurative language

• Figures of Speech

Giving human qualities to something non-living (inanimate) is

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole