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Metaphor and its usage

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4th - 12th Grade

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Metaphor and its usage
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

"The sun was a toddler... refusing to go to bed. It was past eight thirty and still light."


-John Green

Simile

Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Identify the metaphor in the following sentence: 'Her voice is music to my ears.'

Her voice is like a chainsaw in my ears.

Her voice is music to my ears.

Her voice is as soothing as nails on a chalkboard.

Her voice is as pleasant as a dentist's drill.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which vocabulary word is being defined?


Describe one thing as if it were something else. They often point out a similarity between two unlike things.

hyperbole

metaphor

simile

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

That test was a piece of cake

Simile 
Metaphor
Neither

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is an example of a metaphor? 

She is like a bear in the morning- grumpy and cruel. 
The flower stretched her hand out to the sun, yearning for its' rays. 
Her hair was silk. 
Buzz, Hiss, Woof 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

“The great bunch seemed very heavy to his arms, and his heart was often in his mouth, in spite of his ring…” – page 178

simile

metaphor

neither

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Our family is a patchwork quilt" is an example of what?

Alliteration

Allusion

Simile

Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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