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"All Summer in a Day" Vocab & Figurative Language

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What does slacken mean? 
a)
put on
b)
slow down
c)
leave up
d)
catch up
2.
What does tumultuously mean?
a)
wildly
b)
meanly
c)
difficulty
d)
softly
3.

Setting is the

a)

Location

b)

Time

c)

Social Environment

d)

All of the above

4.

What type of figurative language? "The children pressed together like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed."

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

onomatopoeia

5.

What type of figurative language? "with the sweet crystal fall of showers..."

a)

alliteration

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

idiom

6.

What type of figurative language? "A coin large enough to buy the world with..."

a)

hyperbole

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

d)

alliteration

7.

What type of figurative language? "warmness like a blushing in the face, in the body, the arms and legs..."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

8.

What type of figurative language? "Clear bead necklaces upon the roof..."

a)

personification

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

9.

What type of figurative language? "The sun is a flower."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

10.

What type of figurative language? "The sun came out and showed its face to the stunned world."

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

personification

d)

simile

11.

What type of figurative language? "Her voice would be a ghost."

a)

hyperbole

b)

personification

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

12.

What type of figurative language? "drum and gush."

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

13.

What type of figurative language? In regards to the "jungle" and being outside after it rained: "Heard it sigh and squeak under them resilient and alive."

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

personification

14.

What type of figurative language? "Heard the gigantic sound of the rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever."

a)

idiom

b)

hyperbole

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

15.

What type of figurative language? "The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you lost your hearing all together."

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole

16.

Figurative Language: "It was a nest of octopi"

a)

idiom

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

17.

Figurative Language: "...on the jungle mattress..."

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

18.

Figurative Language: "...wildly like animals escaped from their caves."

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

19.

Figurative Language: "They stood as if someone had driven, like so many stakes, into the floor."

a)

alliteration

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

d)

personification