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Figurative Language Review

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a metaphor?

a)

Comparison between two unlike items without using like or as

b)

Comparison between two unlike items using like or as

c)

Comparison between two unlike items using like or as

d)

Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects

2.

What is alliteration?

a)

Words that use the senses to paint a picture

b)

Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects

c)

Same consonant sounds at the beginning of words

d)

Words that stand for sounds

3.

What is hyperbole?

a)

An exaggerated statement

b)

A comparison between two items using like or as

c)

Words that use the senses to paint a picture

d)

A comparison between two items without using like or as

4.

What is personification?

a)

Same beginning consonant sounds of neighboring words

b)

Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects

c)

A word that mimics what it describes

d)

A comparison between two unlike items using like or as

5.

What is simile?

a)

A comparison between two items using like or as

b)

Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects

c)

Words that use the senses to paint a picture

d)

A comparison between two items without using like or as

6.

What is idiom?

a)

A comparison between two items using like or as

b)

A comparison between two items without using like or as

c)

A figurative expression that would not make sense if taken literally

d)

Words that stand for sounds

7.

What is onomatopoeia?

a)

Intentional exaggeration

b)

Same beginning consonant sounds of neighboring words

c)

A word that stands for sounds

d)

A comparison between two unlike items using like or as

8.

What is a pun?

a)

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

b)

A humorous play on words

c)

Words that stand for sounds

d)

An extreme exaggeration

9.

The phrase "spill the beans" is an example of what type of figurative language?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Pun

d)

Idiom

10.

Which of the following is a metaphor?

a)

Here comes the sun

b)

Baby, now we've got bad blood

c)

You're the sunflower

d)

Boom! Clap! The sound of my heart

11.

Which song lyrics contain a simile?

a)

Half of my heart is in Havana

b)

I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know

c)

I am titanium

d)

Falling like ashes to the ground

12.

Which song lyrics contain hyperbole?

a)

Loving him was red

b)

You're my kryptonite

c)

Half of my heart is in Havana

d)

I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know

13.

Which TWO song lyrics contain alliteration?

a)

Half of my heart is in Havana

b)

I'm bad at love. You know I'd be lying saying you're the one

c)

Baby now we've got bad blood

d)

You're the sunflower

14.

Which song lyrics contain personification?

a)

I was lightning before the thunder

b)

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?

c)

Boom! Clap! The sound of my heart

d)

You're the sunflower

15.

Which song lyrics contain onomatopoeia?

a)

Baby you're a firework

b)

Hello darkness my old friend

c)

Boom! Clap! The sound of my heart

d)

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?

16.

"I was lightning before the thunder" is what type of figurative language?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Idiom

c)

Simile

d)

Onomatopoeia