2/28 8th Grade Figurative Language Quiz

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

Taking back negative and hurtful comments is like trying to put toothpaste back into a tube.

• figurative language

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

'The wind whispered through the trees.' This gives the wind human-like qualities.

• allusion

• imagery

• personification

• metaphor

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

After being chased for several city blocks, the criminal was able to escape by the skin of his teeth before the backup arrived on the scene. 

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

The baseball whizzed past my ear straight into the catcher’s mitt for strike 3. 

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

Even though it was a David and Goliath match up, the young team played with passion and determination against the larger, talented, and more experienced team.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• imagery

• allusion

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

The scruffy black cat’s back arches and hair stands straight up when it encounters the chocolate brown snarling dog whose teeth look like little knives covered in butter. 

• oxymoron

• simile

• imagery

• personification

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

  I peered up into the molten lava eyes of the Greek god singing on stage.

• pun

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

 His voice is like rickety floor board/It crackles and groans when he speaks/Whenever he bends down to hug me/ It sounds like his skeleton creaks. 

• imagery

• hyperbole

• euphemism

• idiom

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

Kathy can’t cook chocolate chip cookies continuously, can she?

• paradox

• alliteration

• imagery

• personification

What is figurative language?