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Figurative Language

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This figurative language compares two things using like or as

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

2.

This type of figurative language describes something inhuman as if it were human, giving it human characteristics (e.g. Sadness seized me in its clutches)

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

3.

When you compare two things w/o using like or as, basically saying they are the same thing, you use this kind of figurative language

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

4.

This type of figurative language occurs when you exaggerate a great deal (e. g. "I am starving" instead of "I'm feeling a little hungry")

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

5.

This sound device shows emphasis by saying the same word(s) or phrase(s) multiple times

a)

Idiom

b)

Imagery

c)

Allusion

d)

Repetition

6.

This just refers to a saying that is common that means something different from what it literally says, like (I'm pulling your leg). These can be super difficult for people learning English!

a)

Idiom

b)

Imagery

c)

Allusion

d)

Repetition

7.

This type of figurative language just refers to the use of sensory details to describe something vividly

a)

Idiom

b)

Imagery

c)

Allusion

d)

Repetition

8.

This type of figurative language occurs when you refer to something outside of the text (like if you reference a mythical creature in your short story)

a)

Idiom

b)

Imagery

c)

Allusion

d)

Repetition

9.

"Love is like a red, red rose" is BEST labeled...

a)

A simile

b)

Imagery

c)

Allusion

d)

A metaphor

10.

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul" is an example of...

a)

A simile

b)

A metaphor

c)

An allusion

d)

Imagery

11.

When Taylor Swift writes, "You were Romeo, I was the Scarlet Letter," she uses not one, but TWO examples of this type of figurative language

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Imagery

12.

The following lines of poetry are an example of what? "...all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze"

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Imagery

13.

"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" is an example of...

a)

A simile

b)

A metaphor

c)

Imagery

d)

Hyperbole

14.

The song lyric, "I would walk 500 miles, And I would walk 500 more, Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles to fall down at your door," is BEST described as an example of...

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Hyperbole

15.

In "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe probably repeats "Nevermore" to create a mood of...

a)

Happiness

b)

Hopelesness

c)

Anger

d)

Respect