Literary Terms

Quiz

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English

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5th - 6th Grade

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Hard

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CCSS

RL.5.4, L.4.5, L.11-12.5A

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Margaret Anderson

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20 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which is an example of a simile?

His room was a hurricane of a mess.

His room looked as if a hurricane came through.

A hurricane! AHHH!

The hurricane screamed through the town.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a metaphor?

A comparison using "like" or "as"

A comparison without using "like" or "as"

A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

An extreme exaggeration

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 of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

Boom!

No!

Yes!

Go!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is an example of personification?

You are as a beautiful as a flower.

The trees danced in the wind.

I waited in line for 10 years!

He is an encyclopedia of knowledge.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

personification

metaphor

simile

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

Her hair is red.

She talks really loudly.

She gets really angry.

She spits when she talks.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is personification?

The same beginning sound repeated

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

A word that is a sound

An exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

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