Figurative Language Quiz

A phrase that means something other than its literal meaning.

• Idiom
• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Closely connected words ALL starting with the same letter or sound.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Compares two things that are not related by saying one thing is the other.

• Personificatin

• Metaphore

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Compares two things using the word “like” or “as”.

• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Pun

Exaggerated statement.

• Pun

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Joke playing on the different possible meanings of a word or words that sound alike but have different meaning.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Simile

Gives human characteristics to non-human things.

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

He ran like the wind.

• Simile
• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

It’s raining cats and dogs.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Pun

• Idiom

The test was a piece of cake.

• Pun

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration