WorksheetsFigurative Language Practice Test {Newest}
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
Which figure of speech uses the words like, as, or than to compare seemingly unlike things?
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Which figure of speech is an implied comparison between things that are essentially unlike?
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Which figure of speech gives human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas?
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Which type of figurative language uses words with two or more meanings in order to create an alternate interpretation.
Proverb
Pun
Idiom
Oxymoron
________ is a common expression understood figuratively, as the literal definition makes no sense.
Pun
Proverb
Idiom
Oxymoron
What type of figurative language is formed when two words are put together that contradict each other like “Jumbo Shrimp”?
Proverb
Pun
Idiom
Oxymoron
A proverb is a figurative saying in which a bit of wisdom is given?
True
False
Which statement is an example of a proverb?
The early bird catches the worm.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Tis better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all.
All of these statements are proverbs.
Which statement is not an example of hyperbole?
The boring speaker went on for days about the font that was used in his book.
It was hot enough to fry an egg in the car.
The baby looks so cute when he smiles.
The pimple on my chin is as big as a watermelon.
Read the following sentences from “The Talk” by Gary Soto.
Which of these sentences contains a simile?
“Scott said his wife would work for the first year or so, because he would go to trade
school in refrigeration.”
“First, our heads got large but our necks wavered, frail as crisp tulips.”
“Now we had to do something about our looks.”
“We plucked at the grass and flung it into each other’s face.”
Which of the following is an example of personification?
“This poetry gets bored of being alone, it wants to go outdoors to chew on the winds”
(Hugo Margenat)
“Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach, Three fields to cross till a farm appears”
(Robert Browning)
“Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary” (Edgar Allan Poe)
“In our backyard a boy keeps his little dog Shairk chained up, a ball of fluff shackled
since he was a puppy.” (Aleksander Solzhenitsyn)
Which of the following is an example of metaphor?
The stars were as bright as diamonds.
Her teeth were as white as snow.
Her heart was a river in the flood stage.
The sun is like a ball of fire in the afternoon sky.
What is the meaning of the following underlined idiom?
Even though Candace already had a new job, she submitted her two week notice and conducted herself in a professional way at her old job because she didn’t want to burn bridges.
Candace didn’t want to ruin her positive relationship with her old employer.
Candace wasn’t ready to start her new job.
Candace was really going to miss her old job.
Candace was waiting until her last day to rub it in everyone’s face that she was leaving.
What is the meaning of the following underlined idiom?
After Ms. Smith caught Darnisha chewing gum for the third time, Ms. Smith scheduled a parent teacher conference with Darnisha’s mother. When Darnisha’s mother came into Ms. Smith’s classroom, she was chewing gum. Ms. Smith thought to herself, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree."
Ms. Smith thinks that Darnisha dresses like her mother.
Ms. Smith thinks that Darnisha acts a lot like her mother.
Ms. Smith is surprised to see that Darnisha’s mother came.
Ms. Smith thinks that Darnisha’s mother lives very close to the school.
Which word or words have double meaning in the pun below?
A chicken farmer’s favorite car is a coupe.
farmer’s
chicken
coupe
car
