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Identifying Figures of Speech

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

11th Grade

CCSS covered

Identifying Figures of Speech
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The deafening silence was broken by the crash of a falling tree.

Oxymoron

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

He's so hungry he could eat a horse.

Metaphor

Simile

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

With a mighty leap, the tiger shattered the silence of the jungle.

Personification

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Her words were daggers, each one cutting deeper than the last.

Irony

Metaphor

Simile

Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The mountain stood proud, a mighty fortress guarding the valley below.

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the end, we are all puppets, our strings pulled by unseen forces.

Metaphor

Irony

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

that beauty was a thing fashioned by the traders in words. Tired I shut the book and snuffed the candle.

Simile

Metaphor

Repetition

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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