WorksheetsFigurative Language Diagnostic
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 9mins
"Every night the stars...melted away as the sun mounted. " is an example of which literary device?
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
Choose the idiom below that essentially has the same meaning as, "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"?
He is a chip off the old block.
She cannot see the forest for the trees.
It takes one to know one.
You reap what you sow.
"[She] stood by the window as the stars began to poke holes in the deep, blue velvet sky." is an example of a(n)...
Hyperbole
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
"Clouds and mist poured into the valley, rinsing the sky of color."
Idiom
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
"...With the tree leaves waving farewell, the family made their way up the mountain."
Allusion
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
"Screaming across the indigo sky, the comet frightened the villagers."
Idiom
Personification
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
"[Looking for footprints] was like searching for a wrinkle in a flower petal." is an example of what device?
Simile
Idiom
Hyperbole
Allusion
"He spent a pretty penny for his new clothes." is an example of what device?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Allusion
Idiom
"The car screeched and crashed into a local business" is an example of...
Simile
Hyperbole
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
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...
Metaphor
Idiom
Allusion
Alliteration
"Alex surveyed the piles of rubbish and decay and muttered, 'Just lovely...absolutely beautiful'"
This is an example of what 2 devices?
pun
sarcasm
juxtaposition
metaphor
hyperbole
"...And the stars above filled the sky like spilled salt on dried seaweed." is an example of what figurative language?
Metaphor
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
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:
Allusion
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Juxtaposition
"The snow floated to the earth, who welcomed her children back from their journey" is an example of...
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Personification
"The shirt was about two million times too big for me." is an example of what device?
Hyperbole
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
"A bicycle cannot stand on its own because it is two-tired" is an example of:
a pun
imagery
a proverb
an allusion
"The apple does not fall far from the tree" and "A chip off the old block" are both examples of...
Personification
Metaphors
Alliteration
Idioms
"The midnight sun was like a pearl floating on a dark patterned blanket." is an example of what device?
Hyperbole
Simile
Allusion
Metaphor
"Over the cobblestones he clattered and clashed..." is an example of what two types of figurative language?
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
Alliteration
