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Figurative Language Challenge

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This book cover is an example of what two types of figurative language?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Hyperbole

2.

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.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

3.

Is this sentence an example of literal or figurative language?

The wind blew the leaves.

a)

Literal

b)

Figurative

4.

Make this simile a metaphor.

She is like a red, red rose.

(a)  

5.

This book cover is an example of what kind of figurative language?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Metaphor

6.

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. "

.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Idiom

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

7.

Figurative language helps the reader....

Pick all that applies.

a)

Visualize

b)

Make Connections

c)

Understand the message or meaning the author is trying to convey.

d)

Paint pictures

8.

What is the definition of a simile?

(a)  

9.

Pick the two forms of figurative language that deal with sounds.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

10.

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.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

11.

An exaggeration

a)

Personification

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Idiom

d)

Alliteration

12.

Name this form of figurative language.

a)

Idiom

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Metaphor

13.

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)  

14.

True or false? This is a simile.

She likes his smile.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

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!

a)

The crowd explodes as overtime play begins.

b)

Donnie searches the court like a hungry lion looking for food.

c)

He jumps as high as a kangaroo!

d)

The basketball finds the net!

16.

Word Sounds

a)

Simile

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

17.

What type of figurative language is this?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Idiom

18.

Why is this personification?

(a)  

19.

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)  

20.

What type of figurative language is this?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Idiom

d)

Hyperbole