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Figurative Language Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When poets use words that imitate sounds, what type of figurative language are they using?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Idiom

2.

True or false this is a idiom.

My friend is as busy a bee.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

What is the definition a hyperbole

a)

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

b)

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

c)

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

d)

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

4.

Select all the similes.

a)

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

b)

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

c)

We heard the vroom of the car’s engine as it whizzed by and screeched around the corner

d)

Love is like a faucet; it turns off and on.

5.

Mickey Mouse was running when he heard "boom!"

What type of figurative language is this?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Idiom

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor

6.

She swam like a shark.

This is a (a)   .

7.

Life is a rollercoaster, going up and down.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

8.

She sells seashells on the seashore.

a)

Idiom

b)

Alliteration

9.

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Oxymoron

10.

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Onomatopoeia

11.

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

a)

Idiom

b)

Onomatopoeia

12.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. This is an example of an (a)  

13.

Write a sentence using alliteration.

4 lines
14.

what is the definition of metaphor.

a)

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

b)

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

c)

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

d)

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

15.

A simile uses like or as, and a metaphor doesn't.

a)

True

b)

False