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Figurative Language Test

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The football player was as big as a house. The talented girl played soccer like a boss.

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

simile

d)

oxymoron

2.

Jumbo shrimp/Pretty ugly

a)

understatement

b)

alliteration

c)

idiom

d)

oxymoron

3.

He is a shining star. Time is a thief.

a)

metaphor

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

personification

4.

The thunder clouds laughed at the people trying to run for cover from the rain.

a)

irony

b)

personification

c)

oxymoron

d)

pun

5.

Let's taco about it. This vacuum sucks.

a)

idiom

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

pun

6.

It's raining cats and dogs.

a)

idiom

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

onomatopoeia

7.

BOOM! POW! WHACK!

a)

simile

b)

pun

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

irony

8.

It's raining cats and dogs.

a)

irony

b)

idiom

c)

pun

d)

personification

9.

When something happens that is the OPPOSITE of what you thought would happen.

a)

understatement

b)

metaphor

c)

pun

d)

irony

10.

Sally sells sea shells by the seashore.

a)

hyperbole

b)

simile

c)

pun

d)

alliteration

11.

This bag weighs a ton! I've told you to clean your room a million times!

a)

idiom

b)

irony

c)

pun

d)

hyperbole

12.

"It doesn't hurt that bad," as your arm is bending the wrong direction.

"It's fine," as you are holding a test with big giant F on it.

a)

idiom

b)

understatement

c)

metaphor

d)

onomatopoeia