Figurative Language Quiz

What is figurative language?

• Using words in a creative way to mean something different from their usual meaning.

• Using words in their literal meaning.

• Writing only in rhyme.

• Speaking in a different language.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things by saying one thing is another.

• Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as.'

• Giving human qualities to non-human things.

• Repeating the same sound at the start of words.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• Giving something that isn’t human, human qualities.

• Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as.'

• A group of lines in a poem.

• A short story about something that happened.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a simile?

• Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as.'

• A single row of words in a poem.

• The voice in a poem that tells the story.

• Using words in a creative way.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is alliteration?

• When many words in a row start with the same sound.

• When the same vowel sound repeats in nearby words.

• A short story about something that happened.

• A group of lines in a poem.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is assonance?

• When the same vowel sound repeats in nearby words.

• When many words in a row start with the same sound.

• A single row of words in a poem.

• A person who writes poems.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the term for words that create pictures in your mind, like describing how something looks, feels, or smells?

• Repetition

• Imagery

• Rhyme

• Voice

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which term describes when words or phrases are repeated to make a point or create rhythm?

• Simile

• Free verse poem

• Repetition

• Concrete poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the term for the way a poet shows their personality or feelings in a poem?

• White space

• Voice

• Concrete poem

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

What is it called when two words end with the same sound?

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Imagery

• Free verse poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4