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Figurative Language Diagnostic

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"Every night the stars...melted away as the sun mounted. " is an example of which literary device?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

2.

Choose the idiom below that essentially has the same meaning as, "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"?

a)

He is a chip off the old block.

b)

She cannot see the forest for the trees.

c)

It takes one to know one.

d)

You reap what you sow.

3.

"[She] stood by the window as the stars began to poke holes in the deep, blue velvet sky." is an example of a(n)...

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

4.

"Clouds and mist poured into the valley, rinsing the sky of color."

a)

Idiom

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

5.

"...With the tree leaves waving farewell, the family made their way up the mountain."

a)

Allusion

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

6.

"Screaming across the indigo sky, the comet frightened the villagers."

a)

Idiom

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

d)

Onomatopoeia

7.

"[Looking for footprints] was like searching for a wrinkle in a flower petal." is an example of what device?

a)

Simile

b)

Idiom

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Allusion

8.

"He spent a pretty penny for his new clothes." is an example of what device?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Idiom

9.

"The car screeched and crashed into a local business" is an example of...

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Idiom

d)

Onomatopoeia

10.

The device, "As Megan walked towards a lamppost in the snowy park, she fancied herself as Lucy, eager to talk to Mr. Tumnus." is an example of...

a)

Metaphor

b)

Idiom

c)

Allusion

d)

Alliteration

11.

"Alex surveyed the piles of rubbish and decay and muttered, 'Just lovely...absolutely beautiful'"

This is an example of what 2 devices?

a)

pun

b)

sarcasm

c)

juxtaposition

d)

metaphor

e)

hyperbole

12.

"...And the stars above filled the sky like spilled salt on dried seaweed." is an example of what figurative language?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Idiom

13.

In the film Threads, shell-shocked survivors walk past posters of happy, smiling babies, contrasting the current reality of a brutal, post-nuclear war world. This is an example of:

a)

Allusion

b)

Alliteration

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Juxtaposition

14.

"The snow floated to the earth, who welcomed her children back from their journey" is an example of...

a)

Allusion

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

15.

"The shirt was about two million times too big for me." is an example of what device?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Idiom

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor

16.

"A bicycle cannot stand on its own because it is two-tired" is an example of:

a)

a pun

b)

imagery

c)

a proverb

d)

an allusion

17.

"The apple does not fall far from the tree" and "A chip off the old block" are both examples of...

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphors

c)

Alliteration

d)

Idioms

18.

"The midnight sun was like a pearl floating on a dark patterned blanket." is an example of what device?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Allusion

d)

Metaphor

19.

"Over the cobblestones he clattered and clashed..." is an example of what two types of figurative language?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Idiom

d)

Alliteration