Figurative Language: Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, and Hyperbole

An over exaggeration.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?

It took me a hundred years to finish all of my homework last night.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which of the following are examples of onomatopoeias that are very common at a ZOO.

• Rawr

• Glub

• Zip

• Chirp

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below? The actor was told to "break a leg" before entering onto the stage.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?

The students were as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Ryley was popping his legos together to create a figure.

• together

• legos

• create

• popping

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the meaning of the metaphor.

The car is a dinosaur so we better buy a new one.

• The car is very old.

• The car was truly made in prehistoric times.

• The car is very new.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the figurative language.

Tex was tickled as he tasted the tarantula's toes.

• alliteration

• repetition

• hyperbole

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Metaphor

• Sound

• Onomotopoeia

• Rhythm 

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4