Figurative Language Pre-Assessment

My little sister is a monster when she hasn’t had a nap.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Idiom

He's really on the ball!

• Simile 
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Idiom

I was as sick as a dog on the day of the test.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Idiom

She was on top of the world when she got the lead in the play.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Idiom
• Personification

The tropical storm slept for two days.

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Silently, softly, the swan swam on the lake.

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• simile
• idiom

The students were like ants crowded around the pizza box.

• alliteration
• onomatopeoia
• simile
• metaphor

The boys dove on the ball like angry dogs snariling for a bone.

• metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole
• simile

My father was the sun and the moon to me. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

• simile
• hyperbole
• personification
• metaphor

Her head was so full of ideas that it was ready to burst wide open. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• personification
• metaphor