Figurative Language Test Review Deeper Thinking

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things that says one thing is the other

• An exaggerated statement

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."

What is being personified?

• The walls

• The scream

• The room

• The orange

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"I caught a fish as big as a house," is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• A simile

• A hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which is an example of personification?

• A rose by any other name is just as sweet

• The white clouds raced swiftly across the sky

• That is the ugliest car that I ever saw.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I nearly died laughing is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Define hyperbole.

• An overused phrase

• A word that mimics sounds

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman object or animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

He has been walking for days and days, when he has only been walking for 5 minutes is an example of:

• Allusion

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Her eyes were like a deep ocean filled with endless mystery." This is an example of ____________________.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Structure

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D