Figurative Language Quiz

A phrase that means something other than its literal meaning.

• Idiom
• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

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

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• Personificatin

• Metaphore

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Exaggerated statement.

• Pun

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Gives human characteristics to non-human things.

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

He ran like the wind.

• Simile
• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It’s raining cats and dogs.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Pun

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

The test was a piece of cake.

• Pun

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D