WorksheetsFigurative Language Test Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
"Your mama is so skinny she can hula hoop in a cheerio" is an example of:
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
hyperbole
d)
metaphor
2.
When two or more words have the same sound at the ends of lines is:
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
hyperbole
d)
rhyme
3.
"Crash! Crunch! Grunt! yelped my dog as he jumped on the table and fell" is an example of:
a)
metaphor
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
4.
"Big Booby bopped his basketball between the boy and the baby" is:
a)
rhyme
b)
alliteration
c)
idiom
d)
hyperbole
5.
"The tea cup clinked and clanged as I put it down on the plate" is an example of:
a)
rhyme
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
6.
"My head was a burning bush after we finished jogging" is an example of:
a)
metaphor
b)
idiom
c)
simile
d)
personification
7.
Words or phrases in writing that should not be taken literally:
a)
antonyms
b)
sensory details
c)
figurative language
d)
synonyms
8.
When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a
a)
simile
b)
hyperbole
c)
idiom
d)
metaphor
9.
An obvious and impossible exaggeration is:
a)
hyperbole
b)
simile
c)
idiom
d)
personification
10.
"My flowers were begging for water on the hot summer day" is an example of:
a)
antonym
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
11.
"The snow was a white blanket gently covering the roof of our house" is an example of:
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
synonym
d)
hyperbole
12.
Words that imitate the sounds or actions of objects they are describing is:
a)
alliteration
b)
hyperbole
c)
personification
d)
onomatopoeia
13.
When several words begin with the same consonant sound in a row is:
a)
personification
b)
alliteration
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
14.
"Mrs. Martin makes moose macaroni and mulberry mashed potations on Mondays" is an example of:
a)
personification
b)
metaphor
c)
rhyme
d)
alliteration
15.
"The thunder shouted with terror as the storm drew closer" is an example of:
a)
personification
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
hyperbole
16.
"I could've died laughing when my brother slipped and fell on the slippery ice" is:
a)
hyperbole
b)
alliteration
c)
metaphor
d)
onomatopoeia
17.
"Eeny meeny miny moe; catch a tiger by its toes" is an example of:
a)
hyperbole
b)
rhyme
c)
personification
d)
metaphor
18.
A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' is:
a)
alliteration
b)
simile
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
metaphor
19.
"Her ruby slippers glowed like embers in a fire" is an example of what figurative language?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
20.
When human qualities are given to nonliving objects is:
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
hyperbole
d)
personficiation
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