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Figurative language

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

My mother’s kitchen was like a holy place: you couldn’t wear your shoes, you had to sit there at a certain time, and occasionally we’d pray.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Antithesis

2.

Charlie gazed hopelessly at the endless pile of bills stretching across the counter.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Onomatopoeia

3.

Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

4.

The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Antithesis

5.

The acorn plopped into the puddle.

a)

Personification

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Metaphor

d)

Onomatopoeia

6.

The buzzing bee flew over my head.

a)

Personification

b)

Pun

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Repetition

7.

I can smell pizza from a mile away.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor

8.

The plants in her house silently begged to be watered

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Simile

9.

I don’t trust stairs because they’re always up to something.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Pun

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Antithesis

10.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Antithesis

c)

Personification

d)

Metaphor

11.

'Oh, Shakespeare! Where art thou?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Antithesis

c)

Apostrophe

d)

Personification

12.

That's an impossible solution.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Antithesis

d)

Pun