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WorksheetsFigures of Speech - Grade 8
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 6mins
After going to the zoo, the mall, and the movies, Cassie was sick of bending over backwards to entertain her nieces.
Cassie was doing very little to entertain her nieces.
Cassie was making small efforts to entertain her nieces.
Cassie was trying very hard to entertain her nieces.
Cassie was not trying at all to entertain her nieces.
Because of the political issues blazing in the social media, Candace has already burned bridges when she debated with her friends about voting the best president.
Candace has ruined her positive relationship with her friends.
Candace wasn't ready for the upcoming presidential elections.
Candace was really going to miss her friends.
Candace has waited until her friends would agree on her choice of president.
Keisha posted her complaints against Ronnie on Facebook and threatened him, but Ronnie didn't even response a word because he knew that her bark was worse than her bite.
Ronnie thinks that Keisha will get in trouble for posting on Facebook.
Ronnie thinks that Keisha has bad attitude.
Ronnie thinks that Keisha is loud but not dangerous.
Ronnie thinks that Keisha has a crush on him.
Life would be better if you try to be in someone's shoes before you identify a person by your one-sided judgments.
You should borrow somebody else's shoes.
Having a new pair of shoes would make your life better.
Your shoes are so uncomfortable that living the life would be really unpleasant.
You should imagine being that someone first before you start off judging.
A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare to dissimilar things.
Onomatopeia
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Bang! Bam! Thud! Woosh!
Onomatopeia
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
My brother's room is a pig pen.
Onomatopeia
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
The cool, refreshing water quenched her thirst as the blazing, scorching sun radiated on her.
Metaphor
Idiom
Personification
Imagery
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
Personification
Hyperbole
Tone
Alliteration
I am so hungry that I could even eat a horse!
Allusion
Personification
Hyperbole
Litotes
He doesn't always have the best sense of direction.
Alliteration
Litotes
Hyperbole
Imagery
The lamb sacrificed in the Passover Feast displays the picture of Jesus Christ as the last sacrificial lamb for our sins.
Personification
Simile
Symbolism
Tone
In this 1905 short story, a poor young couple give up their most prized possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts—she sells her long locks to a wigmaker to buy her husband a chain for his pocket watch, and he sells his timepiece to buy her a set of combs for her hair.
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
No irony
A son reluctantly walked outside to meet his father in the yard at 6:00 on a Saturday morning. "Are you ready to do some yard work?" his father asked. "Yeah, I can't wait." The boy replied.
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
No Irony
In a Japanese short story Losing My Father, young boy went out with his father who told him to pretend to be his friend and not his son. His father brought him in every place the son wanted to go with his father. At the end of the day, as they reached the harbor station where his father left him untold about his leaving, the son bid his farewell while hurting because he believed his father fooled him.
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
Situational irony
No irony
