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Figurative Language

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a simile?

a)

Comparison without like or as

b)

Figure of speech connecting to contradictory terms

c)

Comparison using like or as

d)

Extreme exaggeration

2.

What is personification?

a)

Figure of speech putting together two contradictory terms

b)

Extreme exaggeration

c)

Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects and animals

d)

Comparing two things without like or as

3.

What is a metaphor?

a)

Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

b)

Comparison using like or as

c)

Extreme exaggeration

d)

Comparison without like or as

4.

“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Allusion

5.

Rachel is a walking encyclopedia.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

d)

Idiom

6.

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.

a)

personification

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Onomatopoeia

e)

Allusion

7.

The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.

a)

hyperbole

b)

Alliteration

c)

Personification

d)

Repetition

8.

The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Idiom

9.

The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.

a)

Personification

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

10.

The boy was standing like a statue on the sidewalk in everyone's way.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

11.

What is onomatopoeia?

a)

Words that sound like what they mean

b)

an exaggerated statement

c)

a comparison using like, as, or than

d)

an expression not meant to be taken literally (ex. On cloud 9, raining cats and dogs)

12.

Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is...

a)

Metaphor

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

13.

'You are a ray of sunshine!' is an example of:

a)
onomatopoeia
b)
alliteration
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
14.
'Pop! The cork flew from the champagne bottle.'  The word 'pop' is an example of:
a)
personification
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
hyperbole
15.
'Her eyes were sparkling diamonds' is an example of:
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
16.

"The spoon danced in the bowl" is an example of:

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

hyperbole

d)

alliteration

17.
'That test was a breeze!' is an example of:
a)
personification
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
idiom
18.
'Your beauty was a web of delight.' is an example of:
a)
Simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
19.
The little road says, Go,
The little house says, Stay!
This is an example of:
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
20.

“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People

a)

hyperbole

b)

allusion

c)

personification

d)

idiom