Figurative Language Quiz

What is a simile?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Giving human traits to non-human things

• An extreme exaggeration

• A word that sounds like its meaning

Which figurative language gives human-like traits to non-human things?

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

What is an example of hyperbole?

• It was as light as a feather

• I was so hungry I could eat a horse

• You are my sunshine

• Boom! Crash!

Which figurative language involves the repetition of the same initial consonant sound?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• An extreme exaggeration

• Saying something is something else

• A word that sounds like its meaning

Which figurative language uses words that imitate sounds?

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

What is an example of a metaphor?

• It was as light as a feather

• You are my sunshine

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• Boom! Crash!

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• Boom! Crash!

• You are my sunshine

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• It was as light as a feather