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WorksheetsFigurative Language Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins
What is a simile.
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable without using like or as.
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing using like or as of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is an example of a simile.
That child is a bear when he is sleepy.
My Grandma is older than the hills.
Rays of sunshine danced through the trees.
An emerald is as green as grass.
What is a metaphor.
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid using like or as.
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase without using like or as is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
What is an example of a metaphor.
The snow is a white blanket.
Your explanation is as clear as mud.
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
BOOM
What is an onomatopoeia.
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid using like or as.
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
What is an example of an onomatopoeia.
Break a leg.
He is a shining star.
BAM
Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
What is a personification.
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is an example of a personification
Better late than never.
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
ZAP
The wind howled in the night.
What is an alliteration.
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
What is an example of an alliteration
I've told you to clean your room a million times!
The marker I used was as black as coal!
It's raining cats and dogs.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
