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WorksheetsFigurative Language Phantom Tollbooth
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Definition of Personification
Animal or object that is given human characteristics
Words or phrases that appeal to the reader’s senses.
Perspective from which the story is told
Writing that attempts to show life as it really is.
Definition of Imagery
Comparing two things using like or as
Comparison of two things directly
An exaggeration
Words or phrases that appeal to the reader’s senses.
Definition of Motif
figure of speech
represents more than literal self
recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story
author's message
Symbolism
represents beyond it's literal sense
description of a character
repetitive ideas
figure of speech
Definition of Alliteration
word pronounced the same but differs in meaning
Opposite Meaning
play on words
Repetitive sounds at the start of words multiple in a row
Choose the best term to represent the quote "savory steam spiraling slowly to the ceiling"
alliteration
hyperbole
idiom
onomatopoeia
Choose the best term that is represented in the quote: “Ragamuffin, rigmarole, synonym bun” (89)
Satire
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Pun
Choose the best term to represent the following quote "Easy as falling off a log”
oxymoron
simile
Idiom
satire
Choose the best term to represent the quote "extremely soiled bird who looked more like a dirty floor mop than anything else"
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery
Choose the best term to represent the quote, "You must be the fat man...the thinnest one in the world"
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Homophone
Choose the best term to represent, "We have plenty of time (when they didn't)"
Simile
Foreshadowing
Motif
Symbolism
Choose the best term to represent, "there will be a small additional penalty of six million years"
Hyperbole
Pun
Symbolism
Metaphor
Choose the best term to represent, "Symphonies are the large beautiful carpets with all the rhythms…”
Hyperbole
Description
Metaphor
Simile
Choose the term that best represents, "creak, crash, splat..."
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Imagery
Homophones
