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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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