Figurative Language Test

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

"Look outside! Its raining cats and dogs!" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Personification

A funny (often extreme) exaggeration is called a/an...

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

When you give human-like qualities to something that is not human, that is called

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

A comparison using "like" or "as" is a/an

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

An expression that is not meant to be taken literally is a/an

• idiom

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Choose the most appropriate type of figurative language for the item below.

Her eyes glittered like opals in the dying sunlight.

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

The wind blew its chilly breath across the frigid land.

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

Choose the most appropriate type of figurative language for the item below.

We waited forever for our food to arrive!

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

Choose the most appropriate type of figurative language for the item below.

It really burns me up when you pretend not to hear me!

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom