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WorksheetsFigurative Language
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is a metaphor?
a)
words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
b)
an exaggeration
c)
comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing
2.
What is personification?
a)
the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together
b)
a nonliving thing is given human characteristics
c)
an exaggeration
3.
What is alliteration?
a)
words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
b)
repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together
c)
comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing
4.
What is hyperbole?
a)
an obvious exaggeration
b)
a comparison between two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles
c)
the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together
5.
What is onomatopoeia?
a)
words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
b)
a nonliving thing is given human characteristics
c)
use of words to imitate sounds
6.
What is imagery?
a)
the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together
b)
words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
c)
a comparison between two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles
7.
Which is an example of personification?
a)
The dawn is awake!
b)
...Has come, has come!
c)
The torch of gold is borne.
8.
Which is an example of hyperbole?
a)
Music singing in the hills...
b)
I have loved you for a thousand years.
c)
...a flash of flame and fire...
9.
Which is an example of repetition?
a)
Then, higher, higher...
b)
...the mingled fragrance of trees...
c)
...whispers of pent-up harmonies...
10.
Which is an example of alliteration?
a)
The dawn...voices a new awakening.
b)
Dawn is a torch of gold.
c)
A flash of smoldering flame and fire
11.
Which is NOT an example of imagery?
a)
...flash of smoldering flame and fire...
b)
With the mingled fragrance of the trees...
c)
The dawn of a thousand dreams...
12.
Which is an example of personification?
a)
In the low blue lustre...
b)
The shadows of the ships rock on the crest.
c)
The lucid and endless wrinkles...
13.
Which is an example of hyperbole?
a)
The waves are wrinkles.
b)
The lucid and endless wrinkles...
c)
The shadows of the ships rock on the crest.
14.
Which is NOT an example of metaphor?
a)
The waves are wrinkles...
b)
The dawn is a torch of gold...
c)
Wavelets...and white spent bubbles...wash on the floor.
15.
What type of figurative language is being used?
"I wondered what this grim, ungainly, gaunt...bird meant..."
"I wondered what this grim, ungainly, gaunt...bird meant..."
a)
alliteration
b)
simile
c)
hyperbole
16.
What type of figurative language is being used?
"The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees."
"The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees."
a)
simile
b)
hyperbole
c)
metaphor
17.
What type of figurative language is being used?
"Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horsehoofs ringing clear..."
"Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horsehoofs ringing clear..."
a)
metaphor
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
personification
18.
What type of figurative language is being used?
"Rikki-Tikki chuckled to himself..."
"Rikki-Tikki chuckled to himself..."
a)
personification
b)
hyperbole
c)
alliteration
19.
Which of the following is a simile?
a)
His stomach growled like an angry lion.
b)
He is so hungry, he could eat a lion!
c)
Little lucky lion found his favorite prey, a juicy gazelle.
20.
What is a simile?
a)
a comparison between two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles
b)
use of words to imitate sounds
c)
a nonliving thing is given human characteristics
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