WorksheetsFigure of Speech Quiz 12/13
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 51mins
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Class
Date
1.
Define SIMILE -
a)
an exaggeration
b)
repeating beginning sounds
c)
comparing with "like" or "as"
d)
sound words
2.
Define PERSONIFICATION -
a)
an exaggeration
b)
comparing using "like" or "as"
c)
giving human qualities to a nonhuman
d)
sound words
3.
What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."
a)
Her hair is red.
b)
She talks really loudly.
c)
She gets really angry.
d)
She spits when she talks.
4.
Fall Fridays feel fantastic.
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
simile
c)
alliteration
d)
metaphor
5.
Identify the Simile below...
a)
The tree danced in the wind.
b)
She is as tall as a tree!
c)
That cat is the devil.
d)
My backpack weighs a thousand tons!
6.
What type of Sound Device?
From far beyond, the flag flew high for days
a)
Imagery
b)
Alliteration
c)
Assonance
d)
Rhythm
7.
Which of the sentences below are example of alliteration?
a)
sally farted out rainbows
b)
Billy Bozzle Buckled buttons before bedtime
c)
a fat cat that spat at dat bat
d)
All of the below
8.
What is NOT an example of alliteration?
a)
Tiny timmy teleported through time
b)
freddy fox found food for five foxes
c)
A boat wrote a quote and floated over a moat
d)
Mike's microphone made much music
9.
A blue, new moon rose high in the sky, casting a subdued hue over the school.
a)
consonance
b)
assonance
c)
imagery
d)
creepy
10.
Define ALLITERATION -
a)
sound words
b)
repeating beginning sounds
c)
comparing using "like" or "as"
d)
giving human qualities to a nonhuman
11.
The racecar zoomed past the finish line.
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
Personification
12.
Look at the sentence. What type of figurative language did they use?
Kae was so bored he was pulling his hair out!
Kae was so bored he was pulling his hair out!
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
alliteration
d)
hyperbole
13.
Our feet squished in the mud.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
none
14.
This assignment took 100 years!
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
c)
Personification
d)
Hyperbole
15.
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese is an example of ________________.
a)
assonance
b)
hyperbole
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
16.
What type of sound device?
The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.
a)
Euphemism
b)
Consonance
c)
Assonance
d)
Pun
17.
A tall tree could fall hard, even with no ear near.
a)
alliteration
b)
assonance
c)
consonance
d)
parable
18.
Identify the simile
a)
I like apples.
b)
Apples taste sweet.
c)
You're the apple of my eye.
d)
This apple is as sweet as candy.
19.
Identify the metaphor
a)
My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
b)
My heart is a muscle.
c)
My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
d)
My heart is like a muscle.
20.
Simile or Metaphor:
Math is like a puzzle that never ends.
Math is like a puzzle that never ends.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
21.
The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod.
What two things are being compared in this this sentence?
a)
friends to peas in a pod
b)
friends to best
c)
peas to pods
d)
friends to common
22.
Seriously funny
a)
Personification
b)
Antithesis
c)
Oxymoron
d)
Alliteration
23.
Litter and batter
a)
Consonance
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Assonance
d)
Allusion
24.
Tragic comedy
a)
Oxymoron
b)
Assonance
c)
Consonance
d)
Alliteration
25.
Which kind of figurative language is this?
"Civil War"
a)
Oxymoron
b)
Euphemism
c)
Consonance
d)
Pun
26.
Which kind of figurative language is this?
"Life is a roller coaster."
a)
Metaphor
b)
Pun
c)
Consonance
d)
Alliteration
27.
"Love your curves and all your edges/All your perfect imperfections."
a)
Symbol
b)
Oxymoron
c)
Consonance
d)
Allusion
28.
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag/Drifting through the wind/Wanting to start again?"
a)
Irony
b)
Metaphor
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
Simile
29.
Define METAPHOR -
a)
repeating beginning sounds
b)
a figure of speech
c)
sound words
d)
comparing without "like" or "as"
30.
"The Flash is fast like lightning." This is an example of...
a)
assonance
b)
oxymoron
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
31.
The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.
a)
personification
b)
metaphor
c)
simile
d)
hyperbole
32.
Shivering under the covers, Sadie grimaced in terror as the thunder hammered her window and jarred the ground.
a)
Simile
b)
Personification
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Oxymoron
33.
A host, of golden daffodils;
a)
Alliteration
b)
Onomatopoeia
c)
Consonance
d)
Assonance
34.
The following is an example of an euphemism:
"I'm going to have to let you go".
"I'm going to have to let you go".
a)
True
b)
False
35.
"I have a million things to do today," complained Mrs. Gilbert as she loaded the twins into the car.
a)
Simile
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Irony
d)
Personification
36.
Why is euphemism used?
a)
Express something in a less extreme way and make it sound less important than it is in reality.
b)
To offend someone
c)
Express something in a less extreme way, making it more polite and pleasant to the ear.
d)
Express something in a more extreme way and make it sounds more important than it is in reality.
37.
"Superman is a man of steel." This is an example of...
a)
metaphor
b)
idiom
c)
oxymoron
d)
onomatopoeia
38.
When Jamie told us a joke we nearly died laughing. This is an example of...
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
hyperbole
d)
consonance
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