Module 1 English Functional Skills - Figurative language

Match the description to the correct figurative language term: a comparison where one thing is said to be another.

• idiom
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

Label the sentence with the correct figurative language term: The bed groaned when she lay down.

• personification
• hyperbole
• idiom
• simile

Complete the simile: Christopher was as quiet as ...

• a mouse
• a lion
• a thunderstorm
• a train

Match the description to the correct figurative language term: a phrase that means something other than its literal meaning.

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom

Match the description to the correct figurative language term: an exaggeration.

• hyperbole
• personification
• onomatopoeia
• simile

Label the sentence with the correct figurative language term: The two sisters were attached at the hip.

• idiom
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile

Match the description to the correct figurative language term: a word that sounds like the thing or action it is describing.

• personification
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

Complete the simile: She is as brave as ...

• a snail
• a kitten
• a mouse
• a lion

Match the description to the correct figurative language term: to give human characteristics to an object or an animal.

• idiom
• simile
• hyperbole
• personification