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3.1.12 figurative language (poet's toolbox)

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

You are simply the sun in my sky.

a)

hyperbole

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

d)

personification

2.

Choose two:

Death crept in like a thief and without a word, stole what was most dear to me.

a)

allusion

b)

juxtaposition

c)

personification

d)

simile

3.

Abraham Lincoln, what would you say today?

a)

apostrophe

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

4.

Three are included, one is not. Which is NOT included?

My mother was the rock of our family, my father was like the hot air balloon.

a)

Juxtaposition

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

d)

personification

5.

He came in, like a whirlwind.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

illusion

6.

Pick two:

He was like a modern day Moses.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

allusion

d)

alliteration

7.

Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.

a)

alliteration

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

d)

assonance

8.

O, Life, why are you so hard?

a)

assonance

b)

allusion

c)

apostrophe

d)

alliteration

9.

While my elementary school was like picking at cotton candy, junior high was more like trying to eat a caramel apple with braces.

a)

juxtaposition

b)

apostrophe

c)

repetition

d)

assonance

10.

Pick two:

When I ran away, I ran fast, and I ran fearfully, and I ran far.

a)

repetition

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

juxtaposition

11.

She tried to not cry but eventually sighed and asked why.

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

simile

d)

metaphor