WorksheetsFigurative Language - similes, metaphors, alliteration, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 17mins
The following is which type of figurative language?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things, using the words “like” or “as.”
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
alliteration
The following is which type of figurative language?
A figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated.
metaphor
idiom
simile
onomatopoeia
The following is which type of figurative language?
Figurative language used for showing extreme exaggeration.
idiom
hyperbole
metaphor
simile
The following is which type of figurative language?
A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.
personification
simile
hyperbole
alliteration
The following is which type of figurative language?
A figure of speech in which a thing – an idea or an animal – is given human attributes.
onomatopoeia
alliteration
personification
hyperbole
The following is which type of figurative language?
The phrase is understood to mean something quite different from what individual words of the phrase would imply. Can differ from country to country
alliteration
idiom
personification
metaphor
Chose the answer that gives an example of a simile.
“He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.” (Ernest Hemingway)
“I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” (Langston Hughes)
“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.” (By Don Marquis)
“…and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you …” (E. E. Cummings)
Chose the answer that gives an example of a metaphor.
“It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,
And whirr when it stood still.
I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will.” (Tom Paxton
“Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa.” (Vladimir Nabokov)
"What, ho! you men, you beasts,That quench the fire of your pernicious rage" (Romeo & Juliet Act 1 Scene 1)
“Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue."
Babe the Blue Ox (American Folklore)
Which of the following is an example of an idiom?
She was angry she didn't get pizza for lunch.
Her head was in the clouds while dreaming about dancing on stage.
Sally sold seashells by the seashore.
“…and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you …” (E.E. Cummings)
Which of the following is an example of personification?
"And blushing birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?” (Emily Dickinson)
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” —Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor." (The Hunger Games)
Which is an example of alliteration?
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” —Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free..." ( Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
“When well-appareled April on the heel
Of limping winter treads.” (William Shakespeare)
Which is an example of Onomatopoeia?
"And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.” (A. H. Houseman)
“Had we but world enough, and time. This coyness, Lady, were no crime.” (Andrew Marvell)
“Hark, hark!
Bow-wow.
The watch-dogs bark!
Bow-wow." (William Shakespeare)
"Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous." (The Hunger Games)
