Figurative Language ELA Questions

"As fast as cheetah" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When you explain what you believe you are stating your _____

• opinion

• fact

• problem

• solution

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"The tall trees danced in the wind" Which type of figurative language is being used in the sentence?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I nearly died laughing is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Talking animals are an example of what type of figurative language?

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Cliche

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Chliche

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Which type of figurative language is used in the following Beatles song, "Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter?"

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Define hyperbole.

• An overused phrase

• Its raining cats and dogs

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

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

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language uses like or as to compare two unlike things?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4