WorksheetsFigurative Language Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins
When poets use words that imitate sounds, what type of figurative language are they using?
Alliteration
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
True or false this is a idiom.
My friend is as busy a bee.
True
False
What is the definition a hyperbole
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Select all the similes.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
We heard the vroom of the car’s engine as it whizzed by and screeched around the corner
Love is like a faucet; it turns off and on.
Mickey Mouse was running when he heard "boom!"
What type of figurative language is this?
Alliteration
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
She swam like a shark.
This is a (a) .
Life is a rollercoaster, going up and down.
Simile
Metaphor
She sells seashells on the seashore.
Idiom
Alliteration
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. This is an example of an (a)
Write a sentence using alliteration.
what is the definition of metaphor.
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
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.
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
A simile uses like or as, and a metaphor doesn't.
True
False
