WorksheetsFigurative Language Challenge
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
This book cover is an example of what two types of figurative language?
Alliteration
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
What form of figurative language is found in Lines 3, 4, and 6.
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Is this sentence an example of literal or figurative language?
The wind blew the leaves.
Literal
Figurative
Make this simile a metaphor.
She is like a red, red rose.
(a)
This book cover is an example of what kind of figurative language?
Hyperbole
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
What form of figurative language is in this sentence from
Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart:
"I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. "
.
Metaphor
Idiom
Personification
Hyperbole
Figurative language helps the reader....
Pick all that applies.
Visualize
Make Connections
Understand the message or meaning the author is trying to convey.
Paint pictures
What is the definition of a simile?
(a)
Pick the two forms of figurative language that deal with sounds.
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Alliteration
What form of figurative language is in the first stanza of Emily Dickinson's poem?
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
An exaggeration
Personification
Hyperbole
Idiom
Alliteration
Name this form of figurative language.
Idiom
Hyperbole
Personification
Metaphor
Type the sentence that contains a metaphor?
I wish I was as fast as my big brother, Donnie. He is a cheetah on the basketball court. Before each game, he is so excited he is about to explode! The basketball court seems to be calling his name!
(a)
True or false? This is a simile.
She likes his smile.
True
False
Which sentence is an example of hyperbole?
The crowd explodes as overtime play begins. Donnie searches the court like a hungry lion looking for food. His basketball skills are out of this world! He jumps as high as a kangaroo! The crowd is a roaring ocean! The basketball finds the net! The buzzer announces the end of the game. Donnie and his team flip their lids as they celebrate a victory!
The crowd explodes as overtime play begins.
Donnie searches the court like a hungry lion looking for food.
He jumps as high as a kangaroo!
The basketball finds the net!
Word Sounds
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Personification
What type of figurative language is this?
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Idiom
Why is this personification?
(a)
Why is this an example of alliteration?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?"
(a)
What type of figurative language is this?
Metaphor
Personification
Idiom
Hyperbole
