WorksheetsTall Tales and Figurative Language
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which story is a Tall Tale?
a)
Wayside School
b)
Paul Bunyan
c)
The Storm
2.
What symbol represents Paul Bunyan?
a)
hammer
b)
ax
c)
lasso
d)
apple
3.
What symbol represents John Henry?
a)
Hammer
b)
Lasso
c)
Ax
d)
Apple
4.
What symbol represents Pecos Bill?
a)
Lasso
b)
Ax
c)
Hammer
d)
Pot
5.
Which is NOT an element of a tall tale?
a)
exaggeration
b)
American landforms
c)
moral/lesson
d)
super strong characters
6.
A tall tale explains how American landforms were made.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
Which character had a blue ox as a pet?
a)
Paul Bunyan
b)
John Henry
c)
Pecos Bill
d)
Johnny Appleseed
8.
Which character raced a machine through a mountain?
a)
John Henry
b)
Paul Bunyan
c)
Johnny Appleseed
d)
Pecos Bill
9.
Which character tamed a tornado?
a)
Pecos Bill
b)
John Henry
c)
Paul Bunyan
d)
Johnny Appleseed
10.
Which is NOT an example of Traditional Literature
a)
Fable
b)
Fairy Tale
c)
Tall Tale
d)
Realistic Fiction
11.
What is a tall tale?
a)
an exaggerated or imaginary story
b)
a true story based on facts
12.
Why were Tall Tales told?
a)
to explain a natural event in history
b)
to entertain
c)
to tell about a true account
13.
What does exaggerate mean?
a)
true, factual
b)
silly
c)
something made bigger or worse than it actually is
d)
a type of animal
14.
What is an example of a tall tale?
a)
Cinderella
b)
Pecos Bill
c)
Phoebe and the Spelling Bee
d)
Railroad Revolution
15.
What is used in stories to stretch the truth or represent something greater than what isactually true?
a)
Exaggerations
b)
Idioms
c)
Similes
d)
Onomatopoeias
16.
Which of the following statements is an example of an exaggeration?
a)
I have 10 fingers and 10 toes!
b)
My favorite color is blue!
c)
I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse!
17.
Which of the following is the example of a fact?
a)
Pink is the prettiest color
b)
North Carolina is a state
c)
Boys are ALWAYS taller than girls
18.
All tall tale characters were real people
a)
true
b)
false
19.
Tall Tales were written
a)
In today's time
b)
Long ago
c)
Never
20.
What does tale mean?
a)
A dogs body part
b)
a story
21.
What is common about characters in tall tales?
a)
They are super human
b)
They are always lazy
c)
They are always getting into trouble
d)
They are real people in real life
22.
What is a tall tale?
a)
an exaggerated or imaginary story
b)
a true story based on facts
23.
My apartment cost 500.00 a month for rent.
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Not a hyperbole
24.
I could sleep for an hour.
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Not a hyperbole
25.
I am so hungry I could eat a slice of pie.
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Not a Hyperbole
26.
What is personification?
a)
comparing two things using like or as
b)
giving human traits to objects or ideas
c)
a dramatic exaggeration
d)
a word that resembles the sound it represents
27.
What is alliteration?
a)
giving human traits to objects or ideas
b)
a phrase that means something else than what it says
c)
repeating the same initial sound in several words
d)
a contradictory phrase
28.
Match the definition with the term:
comparing two unlike things by using the words "like" or "as"
comparing two unlike things by using the words "like" or "as"
a)
idiom
b)
simile
c)
personification
d)
alliteration
29.
Which of the following is a metaphor?
a)
He is super fast.
b)
He is as fast as a cheetah.
c)
He ran like a cheetah chasing a bird.
d)
He was a cheetah running in the race.
30.
Look at the sentence. What type of figurative language did they use?
Kae was so bored he was pulling his hair out!
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
alliteration
d)
hyperbole
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