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WorksheetsFigurative Language
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 31mins
She is walking on eggshells means...
She is learning how to walk.
She is in the chicken coop.
She is trying not to upset anyone.
What is personification?
comparing two things using like or as
giving human traits to objects or ideas
a dramatic exaggeration
a word that resembles the sound it represents
What is alliteration?
giving human traits to objects or ideas
a phrase that means something else than what it says
repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words
a contradictory phrase
What is an onomatopoeia?
a word that resembles the sound it makes
comparing two things using like or as
a dramatic exaggeration
comparing two things by saying one is the other
What is a hyperbole?
comparing two things using like or as
an extreme exaggeration
giving human traits to objects or ideas
words or phrases that are contradictory
What is an idiom?
a pharse that means something else than what it says
comparing two things using like or as
an extreme exageration
giving human traits to objects or ideas
The thunder boomed in the storm.
Pansy pranced playfully around the playground.
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.
She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.
Tracy was really feeling down in the dumps.
I have told you a million times not to do that!
Darcy daringly dove down the deep ditch.
The run down house looked depressed.
BAM! The door shut behind me. This is an example of ......
onomatopoeia
personification
simile
metaphor
The sad student sat silently in the room. This is an example of ......
alliteration
onomatopoeia
simile
personification
"Shawn would move mountains for Angela."
