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WorksheetsFigurative Language Review
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is a metaphor?
Comparison between two unlike items without using like or as
Comparison between two unlike items using like or as
Comparison between two unlike items using like or as
Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects
What is alliteration?
Words that use the senses to paint a picture
Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects
Same consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Words that stand for sounds
What is hyperbole?
An exaggerated statement
A comparison between two items using like or as
Words that use the senses to paint a picture
A comparison between two items without using like or as
What is personification?
Same beginning consonant sounds of neighboring words
Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects
A word that mimics what it describes
A comparison between two unlike items using like or as
What is simile?
A comparison between two items using like or as
Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects
Words that use the senses to paint a picture
A comparison between two items without using like or as
What is idiom?
A comparison between two items using like or as
A comparison between two items without using like or as
A figurative expression that would not make sense if taken literally
Words that stand for sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
Intentional exaggeration
Same beginning consonant sounds of neighboring words
A word that stands for sounds
A comparison between two unlike items using like or as
What is a pun?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
A humorous play on words
Words that stand for sounds
An extreme exaggeration
The phrase "spill the beans" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Simile
Metaphor
Pun
Idiom
Which of the following is a metaphor?
Here comes the sun
Baby, now we've got bad blood
You're the sunflower
Boom! Clap! The sound of my heart
Which song lyrics contain a simile?
Half of my heart is in Havana
I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know
I am titanium
Falling like ashes to the ground
Which song lyrics contain hyperbole?
Loving him was red
You're my kryptonite
Half of my heart is in Havana
I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know
Which TWO song lyrics contain alliteration?
Half of my heart is in Havana
I'm bad at love. You know I'd be lying saying you're the one
Baby now we've got bad blood
You're the sunflower
Which song lyrics contain personification?
I was lightning before the thunder
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Boom! Clap! The sound of my heart
You're the sunflower
Which song lyrics contain onomatopoeia?
Baby you're a firework
Hello darkness my old friend
Boom! Clap! The sound of my heart
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
"I was lightning before the thunder" is what type of figurative language?
Metaphor
Idiom
Simile
Onomatopoeia
