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WorksheetsFigurative Language
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 39mins
What is a simile?
Comparison without like or as
Figure of speech connecting to contradictory terms
Comparison using like or as
Extreme exaggeration
What is personification?
Figure of speech putting together two contradictory terms
Extreme exaggeration
Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects and animals
Comparing two things without like or as
What is a metaphor?
Giving human traits to animal or non-living things
Comparison using like or as
Extreme exaggeration
Comparison without like or as
“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.”
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Allusion
Rachel is a walking encyclopedia.
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Idiom
“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”
personification
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.
hyperbole
Alliteration
Personification
Repetition
The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Idiom
The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
The boy was standing like a statue on the sidewalk in everyone's way.
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Hyperbole
What is onomatopoeia?
Words that sound like what they mean
an exaggerated statement
a comparison using like, as, or than
an expression not meant to be taken literally (ex. On cloud 9, raining cats and dogs)
Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is...
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Alliteration
'You are a ray of sunshine!' is an example of:
"The spoon danced in the bowl" is an example of:
personification
simile
hyperbole
alliteration
The little house says, Stay!
This is an example of:
“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People
hyperbole
allusion
personification
idiom
