Grade 6 English Quiz

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

A type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

. "The city was a jungle" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

You have already told me that story a million times.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

Each of the winners ____a scholarship and a trophy, every year.

• received

• receives

• receive

Tek is one of the few people who _____ how to operate the equipment.

• known

• knows

• know

Mathematics _____ made up of numbers, variables, angles and shapes.

• was

• are

• is