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📌GRADE 9 ENGLISH LESSON 4 - QUIZ FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
“It might seem crazy what I’m about to say / Sunshine she’s here, you can take a break / I’m a hot air balloon that could go to space.”
               - "Happy" by Pharrell Williams
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
c)
Personification
d)
Hyperbole
2.
"And I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears / So done with wishing you were still here / Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow / So why can't I turn off the radio?"
                                   - "So Sick" by Ne-Yo
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
hyperbole
c)
metaphor
d)
alliteration
3.
“I’d catch a grenade for you / Throw my head on a blade for you / I’d jump in front of a train for you.” 
                  - "Grenade" by Bruno Mars
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
hyperbole
d)
alliteration
4.
"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk / I'm a woman's man—no time to talk / Music loud and women warm / I've been kicked around since I was born."
              - "Staying Alive" by The Bee Gees
a)
metaphor
b)
alliteration
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
5.
"Mmm bop, ba duba dop  / Ba du bop, ba duba dop / Ba du bop, ba duba dop / Ba du."
                         - "MMM Bop" by Hanson
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
hyperbole
c)
simile
d)
personification
6.
"I look at you all / See the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / I look at the floor / And I see it needs sweeping."
          - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
7.
“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag / Drifting through the wind…/ Do you know that there’s still a chance for you / ‘Cause there’s a spark in you… /"
                - "Firework" by Katy Perry
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
personification
d)
onomatopoeia
8.

My Cadillac was completely crushed in a car crash.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Allusion

c)

Metaphor

d)

Oxymoron

9.

Konnor was thirsty enough to drink a river dry.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Imagery

c)

Diction

d)

Alliteration

10.
What is tone ?
a)
the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, 
b)
 the repetition of beginning sounds. 
c)
the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together. 
d)
words where the meaning is the opposite of their usual meaning.
11.
Which is an example of onomatopoeia ?
a)
Boom ! Pow ! Kazaaamm!
b)
The sun kissed my face.
c)
Heart of stone
d)
Sally sells seashells
12.
What is the term for something that represents something else?
a)
Reparation
b)
Symbol
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
Imagery
13.

What is one way to describe what figurative language is?

a)

"Special effects" in a book/poem

b)

Parts of the Plot Pyramid

c)

Grammar rules

d)

Types of characters

14.

"The city was a jungle." is an example of what?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Alliteration

15.

"He could stare into her eyes for a thousand years." is an example of what?

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Alliteration

16.

Time is a friend and an enemy at times.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

17.

What is onomatopoeia?

a)

A comparison that states one thing IS another.

b)

When a word's sound imitates its meaning.

c)

Repetition of a constant sound.

d)

Giving an inanimate object human qualities.

18.

Thanos is as evil as a hungry goblin under a bridge.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

19.

What is the word in color an example of?


Ms. Wyngaard was walking down the hallway when all of a sudden, BAM! One of her students ran right into her.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

20.

An example of a metaphor is...

a)

The boy was as fast as a cheetah.

b)

That's the first photo of France from the outer Space.

c)

The snow is a white blanket.

d)

The trees whispered in the moonlight.