Language Arts Review

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• Boom!

• No!

• Yes!

• Go!

As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• a dramatic exaggeration

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes

• comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• a dramatic exaggeration

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

• comparing two things by using like or as

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• words or phrases that are contradictory

This sentence is an example of what: "I feel as happy as a puppy rolling around in the grass."

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.

What figure of speech is this an example of?

• Metaphore

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification