Figurative Language Test Prep

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

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

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

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

• figurative language

• language

• simile

• metaphor

a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• idiom

• allusion

• metaphor

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

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

an exaggeration that can't possibly be true

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

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

• pun

• simile

• alliteration

• idiom

giving human qualities to inanimate objects

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

the repetition of the same initial consonant sound

• onomatopeia

• allusion

• alliteration

• idiom

words that are the sound they make

• alliteration

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

• allusion