Figurative Language Test Prep

What type of figurative language compares two things using like or as?

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What kind of mood: "There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness; not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago; and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible."

• awestruck

• sadness

• anger

• joyful

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Figures of speech that mean something different than what they literally say

• figurative language

• language

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• idiom

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a comparison of two unlike things that says one thing is another

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

an exaggeration that can't possibly be true

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

an expression that doesn't literally mean what the words say

• pun

• simile

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

giving human qualities to inanimate objects

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of the same initial consonant sound

• onomatopeia

• allusion

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

words that are the sound they make

• alliteration

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4