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WorksheetsProverbs and Figurative Language
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 14mins
What is Alliteration?
A figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common.
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Words whose sound suggests its meaning.
What is Onomatopoeia?
An extravagant exaggeration.
A. comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
Words whose sound suggests its meaning.
What is a Metaphor?
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
A phrase that has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.
A figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike, but do have something in common.
What is a simile?
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
A phrase that has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.
An extravagant exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
Something you find in a math book.
An extravagant exaggeration.
A phrase that can be compared with something else.
What is personification?
A repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Giving human qualities of things and ideas.
Stating two things that are similar.
What is an Idiom?
A phrase that has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.
Giving human qualities to things and ideas.
An extravagant exaggeration.
Choose the correct the figure of speech.
Hit the road.
Idiom
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Choose the figure of speech.
She was so scared that she turned as white as a ghost.
Idiom
Metaphor
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Choose the correct figure of speech.
Time was a thief to me this year.
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Idiom
Choose the figure of speech.
I will never reach the end of this race.
Metaphor
Idiom
Hyperbole
Simile
Alliteration
Choose the correct figure of speech.
Time flies when you are having a great time.
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Choose the correct figure of speech.
The bees buzzed all the way home.
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Choose the figure of speech.
Sally sells sea shells on the sea shore.
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Choose the figure of speech.
Did you see her dress?
Simile
Metaphor
Ambiguity
Onomatopoeia
What is Ambiguity?
An exaggeration.
When a consonant is being repeated
Is when the meaning of a word, phrase, or sentence is uncertain. There could be more than one meaning.
What is an Understatement?
Is when the meaning of a word, phrase, or sentence is uncertain. There could be more than one meaning.
To intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is.
Is a polite expression used in place of words or phrases that might otherwise be considered harsh or unpleasant.
What is a Euphemism?
To intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is.
Is when the meaning of a word, phrase, or sentence is uncertain. There could be more than one meaning.
Is a polite expression used in place of words or phrases that might otherwise be considered harsh or unpleasant.
