Figurative Language Summative Quiz

Which type of figurative language uses like or as to compare two unlike things?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Cliche

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is the best definition of onomatopoeia?

• An exaggeration

• Words that sound like their meaning.

• A direct comparison

• An indirect comparison

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the best definition of hyperbole?

• An overused phrase

• Its raining cats and dogs

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Metaphors often use the words (a)   ​ in a sentence.

• is or was
• like or as
• he or she

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Pick the sentence that contains alliteration.

• Plastic bags rip easily.

• The kid kept kicking at the air.

• The knife kept slipping as he chopped the cucumber for salad.

• Writing class is boring!

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Select ALL examples of personification.

• The man brushed his dog off the couch.

• The old house groaned and sighed in the wind.

• The crayon leapt from the child's hand.

• She stood like a statue.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Gurgle, crash, buzz, and boom are all examples of...

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Life is like a box of chocolates.

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Gabby gulped down the Mountain Dew.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Select all the correct examples of a simile.

• She looked like a cat as she crouched over the piano.

• He liked chocolate sauce on vanilla ice cream.

• James sneezed as he left the movie theater

• Cindy was as fast as lightning as she rounded the corner on her bike.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D