Similes and Hyperboles

Similes and Hyperboles

6th - 8th Grade

20 Qs

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Similes and Hyperboles

Similes and Hyperboles

Assessment

Quiz

English

6th - 8th Grade

Hard

CCSS
L.6.5A, L.4.5A, L.11-12.5A

+3

Standards-aligned

Created by

Margaret Anderson

FREE Resource

20 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Is the following sentence as simile or metaphor?

Her hands were as cold as ice after the hayride.

simile

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?

The dancer's hands fluttered like wings.

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The following sentences gives the flame human qualities:

The candle flame danced in the dark.


So, what type of the figurative language being used?

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The following sentence is exaggerating:

Pam was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole.


So, what type of figurative language is it?

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The following sentence gives human qualities to the thunder and the raindrops:

Thunder grumbled and raindrops reported for duty.


So, what type of figurative language is it?

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The following sentence uses "like" or "as" to compare her head to dying flower.

She hung her head like a dying flower.


So, what type of figurative language is used?

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The following sentence gives human qualities to the sunflowers:

The sunflowers nodded in the wind.


So, what type of figurative language is used?

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

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