Figurative Language Quiz

Read the following sentence. If the sentence uses any figurative language, write F on the line. If the sentence uses only literal language, write L on the blank.

When he heard the scream, claws of fear tore at his scalp.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the following sentence. If the sentence uses any figurative language, write F on the line. If the sentence uses only literal language, write L on the blank.

The giraffe nibbled at the leaves on the tree.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the following sentence. If the sentence uses any figurative language, write F on the line. If the sentence uses only literal language, write L on the blank.

The shark’s fin cut the water like a razor slashing silk.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The following sentence uses a figurative comparison. Read the sentence and then choose the two things being compared.

The skin on the farmer’s face was as wrinkled, weathered, and worn as the leather on a horse’s harness.

• farmer—face

• farmer—leather

• skin—leather

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Read the following sentence. If the sentence uses any figurative language, write F on the line. If the sentence uses only literal language, write L on the blank.

Janice tiptoed through the house, trying not to wake the peacefully sleeping baby.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the following sentence. If the sentence uses any figurative language, write F on the line. If the sentence uses only literal language, write L on the blank.

The busy storekeeper growled at us like an old grizzly bear.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the following sentence. If the sentence uses any figurative language, write F on the line. If the sentence uses only literal language, write L on the blank.

The speaker rumbled and roared, burying his audience in an avalanche of words.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the following sentence. If the sentence uses any figurative language, write F on the line. If the sentence uses only literal language, write L on the blank.

A light breeze blew through the garden, and the fresh scent of flowers drifted into the house.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Uncle Tyrone’s snores sound so much like a chainsaw they could probably cut wood.

• oxymoron

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Choose the comparison being made in the following simile.

The old deserted movie theater was so musty and foul that it was the same as a sealed tomb opened for the first time in a thousand years.

• desert-musty

• movie theater-tomb

• the smell of the movie theater- the smell of a tomb

• musty and foul-a thousand years

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D