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Identifying figurative language

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

Hanging with you is as easy as pie.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

2.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

The city I live in never sleeps.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

3.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

You really are the apple of my eye!

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

4.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

Into each life some rain must fall.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

5.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

It's raining cats and dogs.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

6.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

The wind sang through the trees.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

7.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

Don’t just sit there like a bump on a log.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

8.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

I had terrible butterflies (in my stomach) before I gave that public speech.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

9.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

The cake is calling my name!

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

10.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

Sometimes you’re hot and then sometimes you’re cold.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

11.

What kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

The twins are like two peas in a pod!

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

12.

What kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

She's a star!

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

13.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

Whenever I feel under the weather I get my mother to make me chicken soup. It works every time.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

14.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

Let's stay together like the stars and the moon.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

15.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

The clock screams in my ear.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

16.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

You all look great in your costumes! Break a leg!

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

17.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

The rainforests in Brazil are the lungs of the Earth.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

18.

What kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

Solar panels greedily absorb light energy from the sun.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

19.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

The air pollution in Hong Kong is like a blanket that smothers our lungs every day.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

20.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

People who say that we don't need to find alternative energy sources will one day eat their words.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom