WorksheetsFigurative language
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a metaphor?
a)
A word that makes the sound it represents
b)
A comparison of two unrelated things
c)
An exaggerated statement
2.
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."
What is being personified?
a)
The walls
b)
The scream
c)
The room
d)
The orange
3.
"I caught a fish as big as a house," is an example of what literary device?
a)
Personification
b)
A simile
c)
A hyperbole
4.
Giving inanimate objects human characteristics
a)
hyperbole
b)
symbole
c)
mood
d)
personification
5.
A device where the speaker refers to something that the reader needs prior knowledge of or experience with in order to understand.
a)
apostrophe
b)
allusion
c)
allegory
d)
antonym
6.
A simile.....
a)
tells what a person likes
b)
compares two unlike things using the words like or as
c)
compares two similar things
d)
tells what a person is doing
7.
the repetition of the initial consonant sound in two or more neighboring words or syllables
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
personification
c)
simile
d)
alliteration
8.
Life is like a box of chocolates.
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
9.
My dad is a rock.
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
10.
An extreme exaggeration from the truth.
a)
Assonance
b)
Rhyme
c)
Simile
d)
Hyperbole
11.
Which is an example of a simile?
a)
His room was a hurricane of a mess.
b)
His room looked as if a hurricane came through.
c)
A hurricane! AHHH!
d)
The hurricane screamed through the town.
12.
What is a metaphor?
a)
A comparison using "like" or "as"
b)
A comparison without using "like" or "as"
c)
A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
d)
An extreme exaggeration
13.
What is the definition of hyperbole?
a)
When a group of of words all start with the same sound.
b)
When words sound like what they mean.
c)
An extreme exaggeration
d)
A comparison
14.
Which of the following is an example of personification?
a)
You are as a beautiful as a flower.
b)
The trees danced in the wind.
c)
I waited in line for 10 years!
d)
He is an encyclopedia of knowledge.
15.
"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?
a)
simile
b)
alliteration
c)
metaphor
d)
onomatopoeia
16.
What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.
a)
personification
b)
metaphor
c)
simile
d)
hyperbole
17.
What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."
a)
Her hair is red.
b)
She talks really loudly.
c)
She gets really angry.
d)
She spits when she talks.
18.
What type of figurative language is shown?
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.
a)
metaphor
b)
oxymoron
c)
simile
d)
hyperbole
19.
What type of figurative language is shown?
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.
a)
personification
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
hyperbole
d)
metaphor
20.
What type of figurative language is shown?
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
hyperbole
d)
alliteration
21.
What type of figurative language is shown?
I have told you a million times not to do that!
I have told you a million times not to do that!
a)
personification
b)
alliteration
c)
hyperbole
d)
oxymoron
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