WorksheetsFigurative Language Quiz-English I
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 53mins
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1.
Which is an example of a simile?
a)
His room was a hurricane of a mess.
b)
His room looked as if a hurricane came through.
c)
A hurricane! AHHH!
d)
The hurricane screamed through the town.
2.
What is a metaphor?
a)
A comparison using "like" or "as"
b)
A comparison without using "like" or "as"
c)
A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
d)
An extreme exaggeration
3.
Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?
a)
Boom!
b)
No!
c)
Yes!
d)
Go!
4.
What is the definition of hyperbole?
a)
When a group of of words all start with the same sound.
b)
When words sound like what they mean.
c)
An extreme exaggeration
d)
A comparison
5.
Which of the following is an example of personification?
a)
You are as a beautiful as a flower.
b)
The trees danced in the wind.
c)
I waited in line for 10 years!
d)
He is an encyclopedia of knowledge.
6.
"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?
a)
simile
b)
alliteration
c)
metaphor
d)
onomatopoeia
7.
What is this is an example of: 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
8.
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.
9.
What is personification?
a)
The same beginning sound repeated
b)
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
c)
A word that is a sound
d)
An exaggeration
10.
Why do people use figurative language?
a)
To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point.
b)
To be grammatically correct.
c)
To structure their writing into paragraphs.
d)
Because Beyonce uses it in her songs.
11.
What is a metaphor?
a)
Comparing two things in a text
b)
Comparing two things using like and as
c)
An exaggeration
d)
Comparing two things without using like and as
12.
What is a hyperbole?
a)
An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally.
b)
a comparison using like or as
c)
repeating the beginning consonant sounds
d)
none of the above
13.
What is an example of an alliteration?
a)
The vase flew off of the shelf.
b)
Powerful pandas punch parrots.
c)
The plant liked to fly.
d)
I like to eat pie.
14.
"The firework exploded in the air, making a big BOOM in the air."
is an example of
is an example of
a)
Personification
b)
Onomatopoeia
c)
Metaphor
d)
All of the above
15.
Onomatopoeia is...
a)
An exaggerated statement
b)
A type of bug
c)
A comparison of two things using like or as
d)
The use of a word associated with a sound.
16.
"He was as cool as a cucumber." is an example of a(n)
a)
Simile
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metaphor
d)
None of the above
17.
The car is a dinosaur so we better buy a new one.
a)
The car is very old.
b)
The car was truly made in prehistoric times.
c)
The car is very new.
18.
"I am as hungry as a bear!" The kind of figurative language used here is _______
a)
simile and personification
b)
personification
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
19.
Fall Fridays feel fantastic.
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
simile
c)
alliteration
d)
metaphor
20.
What onomatopoeia goes best with this picture?
a)
Ouch!
b)
Woosh!
c)
Blast-OFF!
d)
Bam!
21.
She sells sea shells by the sea shore is an example of:
a)
Metaphor
b)
Alliteration
c)
Simile
d)
Personification
22.
What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.
a)
personification
b)
alliteration
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
23.
What type of figurative language is shown?
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.
a)
metaphor
b)
oxymoron
c)
simile
d)
hyperbole
24.
This shows...
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
simile
c)
alliteration
d)
hyperbole
25.
Descriptive words that appeal to the senses
a)
hyperbole
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
metaphor
d)
imagery
26.
"Blazing in gold and quenching in purple,"
a)
metaphor
b)
consonance
c)
imagery
d)
personification
27.
Silly Sally swam so smoothly' is an example of:
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
idiom
28.
These shoes take 50 million years to put on.
a)
imagery
b)
simile
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
29.
What is alliteration?
a)
A word in which the sound reflects is meaning.
b)
Repeating words or phrases
c)
Language that appeals to the five senses
d)
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
30.
Carla put her foot in her mouth really means...
a)
Carla takes yoga classes.
b)
She said something embarrassing.
c)
Carla ate a snack.
31.
Directions: Read the selection and then answer the question that follows.
Rebellion
At first, the little letters crawled. Then they poured out of the page. The words that I lovingly etched left me in my own maze. "Hold still" I told my feisty pen. It danced along the white spaces. It swerved and swayed again. It left the inkiest of traces.
Which of these lines from this poem is an example of personification?
Rebellion
At first, the little letters crawled. Then they poured out of the page. The words that I lovingly etched left me in my own maze. "Hold still" I told my feisty pen. It danced along the white spaces. It swerved and swayed again. It left the inkiest of traces.
Which of these lines from this poem is an example of personification?
a)
A. "At first, the little letters crawled"
b)
B. "The words that I lovingly etched"
c)
C. "It left the inkiest of traces"
d)
D. "left me in my own maze"
32.
Directions: Read the selection and then answer the question that follows. Tree Shaking by C. Safos
The man who cuts our school's lawn moves on his mower like a hermit crab dragging a shell. He also tends to the fruit trees like a watchmaker keeping time. He circles the apple tree twice. The plums surround their trunk like dreams. When he picks them from the ground, he looks to see if anyone sees him stash one in his jacket. His coat is big enough to hide away a whole orchard. I want to tell him, "I really love your peaches," but he's as deaf as the moon during an eclipse.
Which is an example of hyperbole expressed in this poem?
The man who cuts our school's lawn moves on his mower like a hermit crab dragging a shell. He also tends to the fruit trees like a watchmaker keeping time. He circles the apple tree twice. The plums surround their trunk like dreams. When he picks them from the ground, he looks to see if anyone sees him stash one in his jacket. His coat is big enough to hide away a whole orchard. I want to tell him, "I really love your peaches," but he's as deaf as the moon during an eclipse.
Which is an example of hyperbole expressed in this poem?
a)
A. "He circles the apple tree twice."
b)
B. "but he's as deaf as the moon during an eclipse"
c)
C. "His coat is big enough to hide away a whole orchard."
d)
D. "moves on his mower like a hermit crab"
33.
Directions: Read the selection and then answer the question that follows.
Samuel had always been a patient young man. He was raised with four sisters by a single mother, just him and these five females. Often, he felt like an alien among them, as so many things about these women just didn’t make sense. One or another of his sisters would erupt in a volcano of emotion, for what seemed like Samuel to be the smallest of issues. That didn’t happen to Samuel. To him,his emotions always felt room temperature, neither cold nor hot. Samuel regularly found himself sitting on the couch like an unmovable mountain while the fury of his mom and sisters exploded in flames all around him. Samuel was always at peace while his sisters seemed always to be declaring war.
Which of the following statements from the passage contains a simile?
Samuel had always been a patient young man. He was raised with four sisters by a single mother, just him and these five females. Often, he felt like an alien among them, as so many things about these women just didn’t make sense. One or another of his sisters would erupt in a volcano of emotion, for what seemed like Samuel to be the smallest of issues. That didn’t happen to Samuel. To him,his emotions always felt room temperature, neither cold nor hot. Samuel regularly found himself sitting on the couch like an unmovable mountain while the fury of his mom and sisters exploded in flames all around him. Samuel was always at peace while his sisters seemed always to be declaring war.
Which of the following statements from the passage contains a simile?
a)
A. "Samuel regularly found himself sitting on the couch like an unmovable mountain . . ."
b)
B. ". . . so many things about these women just didn't make sense."
c)
C. "To him, his emotions always felt room temperature, neither cold nor hot."
d)
D. "Samuel was always at peace, while his sisters seemed always to be declaring war."
34.
Directions: Read the selection and then answer the question that follows. Samuel had always been a patient young man. He was raised with four sisters by a single mother, just him and these five females. Often, he felt like an alien among them, as so many things about these women just didn’t make sense. One or another of his sisters would erupt in a volcano of emotion, for what seemed like Samuel to be the smallest of issues. That didn’t happen to Samuel. To him, his emotions always felt room temperature, neither cold nor hot. Samuel regularly found himself sitting on the couch like an unmovable mountain while the fury of his mom and sisters exploded in flames all around him. Samuel was always at peace while his sisters seemed always to be declaring war.
What is meant by the metaphor "erupt in a volcano of emotion"?
What is meant by the metaphor "erupt in a volcano of emotion"?
a)
A. One of his sisters would get so emotional her skin would get hot like lava.
b)
B. One of his sisters would get so emotional she would spit.
c)
C. One of his sisters would turn bright red with emotion.
d)
D. One of his sisters would have a strong outburst of emotion.
35.
use of symbols to represent an idea or concept that is different from its original meaning or function
a)
simile
b)
symbolism
c)
figurative language
d)
onomatopoeia
36.
Tone can best described as
a)
attitude of the reader
b)
the overall mood or feeling in a story
c)
the author's attitude toward his writing
d)
reader's point of view
37.
To remember what tone is, some good tricks are:
a)
AA-author's attitude
b)
parent saying: "don't give me that tone"
c)
imagining the author's facial expression as he writes
d)
all of these are true
38.
Read the following poem, "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti and answer the question below.
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is a weathered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon [peaceful] sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
QUESTION: What mood do the details of the poem convey? (Look specifically at the three things the speaker compares her heart to.)
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is a weathered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon [peaceful] sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
QUESTION: What mood do the details of the poem convey? (Look specifically at the three things the speaker compares her heart to.)
a)
Sorrow
b)
Happiness
c)
Excitement
d)
Nervousness
39.
Read the following lines from "The Garden of Proserpine" by Algernon Swinburne. Then answer the question below.
There go the loves that wither [dry up],
The old loves with wearier wings;
And all dead years draw thither [there] And disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that winds have taken,
Red strays of ruined springs. ... And love, grown faint and fretful
With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure [last].
QUESTION: In the first two lines, what images does the speaker use to describe love?
There go the loves that wither [dry up],
The old loves with wearier wings;
And all dead years draw thither [there] And disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that winds have taken,
Red strays of ruined springs. ... And love, grown faint and fretful
With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure [last].
QUESTION: In the first two lines, what images does the speaker use to describe love?
a)
Loves that go away and have exhausted wings
b)
Loves that grow both wobbly and worrisome
c)
Loves that die
d)
Loves whose is both young and old
40.
There go the loves that wither [dry up], The old loves with wearier wings;
And all dead years draw thither [there] And disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that winds have taken,
Red strays of ruined springs. ...
And love, grown faint and fretful With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure [last].
QUESTION: What mood do the details in the poem convey?
And all dead years draw thither [there] And disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that winds have taken,
Red strays of ruined springs. ...
And love, grown faint and fretful With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure [last].
QUESTION: What mood do the details in the poem convey?
a)
Wastefulness and excess
b)
Happiness
c)
Sadness and despair
d)
Mistrust
41.
Which tone is represented in the following passage?
Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!
Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!
a)
Calm
b)
Annoyed
c)
Scary
d)
Excited
42.
What is the tone of the following passage?
The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.
The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.
a)
Eerie
b)
Sarcastic
c)
Passionate
d)
Humorous
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