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Figurative Language in Christmas Music

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 22mins

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Class
Date
1.

"Walking in a Winter Wonderland..."


Which sound device is used in this song's title?

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

2.

"Silver bells, silver bells

It's Christmas time in the city

Ring-a-ling, hear them ring

Soon it will be Christmas Day!"


Which sound device is used in this song's lyrics?

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

3.

"Come they told me, pah-rum-pum-pum-pum

A newborn king to see, pah-rum-pum-pum-pum

rum-pum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum..."


Which sound device is used in the song, "Little Drummer Boy?"

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

4.

"You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

You really are a heel.

You're as cuddly as a cactus

You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch..."


Which type of figurative language is used in the underlined lines above?

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

5.

"You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel..."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

6.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Everywhere you go;

Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again

With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas,

Toys in every store, But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be

On your own front door.


Which literary element is used to appeal to our senses in the song's lyrics?

a)

metaphor

b)

imagery

c)

alliteration

d)

onomatopoeia

7.

Mary did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?

Mary did you know that your baby boy would one day rule the nations?

Did you know that your baby boy is heaven's perfect lamb?

That sleeping child you're holding is the great "I Am."


Which type of figurative language is used in the underlined line above?

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

alliteration

8.

"We three kings of Orient are

Bearing gifts we traverse afar.

Field and fountain, moor and mountain,

Following yonder star."


Which sound device is used above?

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

personification

9.

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.


This is an example of what type of figurative language?

a)

simile

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

10.

"Let heaven and nature sing, let heaven and nature sing..."


This is an example of which type of figurative language?

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

onomatopoeia