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WorksheetsFigurative Language Exam Prep
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 12mins
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1.
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. This form employs the terms "like" or "as."
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
2.
A figure of speech that refers to something as being the same as another thing for rhetorical effect.
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
3.
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
4.
A word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
5.
A figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas.
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
6.
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
7.
falsely true
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
8.
She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
9.
the Sun smiled at us
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
10.
He is a lion.
a)
alliteration
b)
metaphor
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
11.
He is as brave as a lion.
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
12.
slam, splash, bam, babble, warble, gurgle, mumble and belch.
a)
personification
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
oxymoron
d)
metaphor
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