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Figurative Language Challenge

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The pencil danced across the paper

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

e)

symbol

2.

Life is like a box of chocolates

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

hyperbole

d)

simile

e)

alliteration

3.

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets

a)

alliteration

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

symbol

4.

Tommy is a bull in a china stop

a)

simile

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

metaphor

d)

hyperbole

e)

symbol

5.

I told you one million times to clean your room

a)

hyperbole

b)

alliteration

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

e)

symbol

6.

Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?

a)

She was white as a ghost

b)

Buzz

c)

Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Peppers

d)

Break a leg

7.

"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning," is an example of which type of figurative language?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Chliche

d)

Personification

8.
I plant purple petunias in the park.
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
personification
d)
metaphor
9.
The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.
a)
hyperbole
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
personification
10.
The snowballs were bullets, punching me in the chest, is an example of...
a)
A hyperbole/personification
b)
A metaphor/personification
c)
A simile/metaphor
d)
Personification/Onomatopoeia
11.
The lightweight fighter lost so much weight, he looked as thin as a rail.
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Idiom
d)
Oxymoron
12.
What is an example of a metaphor? 
a)
She is like a bear in the morning- grumpy and cruel. 
b)
The flower stretched her hand out to the sun, yearning for its' rays. 
c)
Her hair was silk. 
d)
Buzz, Hiss, Woof 
13.
Which of these is the best definition of imagery?
a)
anything that is literal
b)
giving a human trait to something non-human
c)
language that appeals to the reader's five senses
d)
 descriptions that are not literally true
14.
Which of these is an example of exaggeration (hyperbole)?
a)
The leaf raced like a speedboat across the top of the water.
b)
Harriet spends all day fixing her hair.
c)
The clouds danced across the sky.
d)
The grass was a soft, plush carpet.
15.
What type of figurative language is used in the third line?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personificiation
d)
hyperbole
16.

What type of imagery is this?

The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

a)

visual

b)

auditory

c)

tactile

d)

olfactory

17.

This sentence appeals to which sense:


The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.

a)

gustatory

b)

olfactory

c)

auditory

d)

tactile

18.

“There is a place where the sidewalk ends and before the street begins, and there the grass grows soft and white”

a)

visual

b)

auditory

c)

olfactory

d)

tactile

19.

The aroma of chocolate filled the air.

a)

auditory

b)

visual

c)

olfactory

d)

gustatory

20.

What imagery does Tennyson use in this excerpt from the poem?

a)

visual and tactile imagery

b)

olfactory, gustatory, and auditory imagery

c)

auditory, visual, and tactile imagery

d)

no imagery

21.

"Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street"

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

22.

"Tick! Tock! On the clock but the party don't stop"

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

onomatopoeia

23.

"You know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight"

a)

personification

b)

alliteration

c)

hyperbole

d)

onomatopoeia

24.

"Little darling, it's been a long, cold, lonely winter"

a)

alliteration

b)

hyperbole

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

metaphor

25.

"You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes"

a)

hyperbole

b)

personification

c)

onomatopoiea

d)

alliteration

26.

"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme..."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

onomatopoiea

27.

"I think to myself, what a wonderful world"

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

alliteration

28.

"My heart's a stereo; it beats for you"

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole

29.

"You've got a smile that takes me to another planet"

a)

personification

b)

alliteration

c)

hyperbole

d)

onomatopoiea

30.

"You change your mind like a girl changes clothes"

a)

hyperbole

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

31.

"Walking in a winter wonderland"

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

32.

"Now it's your turn to cry; cry me a river"

a)

hyperbole

b)

personification

c)

alliteration

d)

onomatopoiea

33.

"I just wanted to take this in, the moonlight dancin' off your skin"

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

34.

"I got that boom, boom, boom. That future boom, boom, boom"

a)

personification

b)

onomatopoiea

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

35.
"I'd catch a grenade for ya."
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Personification
36.
What is imagery?
a)
An exaggeration
b)
A phrase that is not meant to be taken literally
c)
The same beginning sound repeated
d)
Words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
37.
"Just like a moth drawn to a flame
Oh, you lured me in, I couldn't sense the pain."
Is an example of...
a)
simile
b)
hyperbole
c)
alliteration
d)
imagery
38.
"The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation,
And it looks like I'm the queen.
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I tried!"
Is an example of...
a)
imagery
b)
metaphor
c)
allitertation
d)
onomatopoeia
39.
"The stars will cry."
a)
Metaphor
b)
Personification
c)
Alliteration
d)
Onomatopoeia
40.
"My life has been a ship sailing sea to sea."
a)
Onomatopoeia
b)
Simile
c)
Alliteration
d)
Personification
41.

Identify the figurative language: "There slowly came a grand array of women, all sent before me now by august Persephone, and all were wives and daughters once of princes. They swarmed in a flock around the dark blood"

a)

personification

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

42.

Identify the figurative language: Dawn is "rosy-fingered" and the "child of morning"

a)

Simile

b)

Imagery

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

43.

Identify the figurative language: Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion.

a)

Simile

b)

Imagery

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

44.

Identify the figurative language: They speared the crews like fish and whisked them home to make their grisly meal

a)

Simile

b)

Imagery

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

45.

Identify the figurative language: "The boat tasted grief and let the breeze take over.”

a)

Simile

b)

Imagery

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

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