WorksheetsFigurative Languange
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 26mins
What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as
An exaggeration
Something funny
A phrase that doesn't make sense
What is an example of a Metaphor?
The pipe busted open.
I am so hungry that I could eat a horse.
I like school.
This classroom is a zoo.
What is an example of a simile?
She is cute.
What did you do today?
She was as sweet as pie.
Andy was a pig at dinner.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison not using like or as.
An exaggeration
A comparison using like or as.
A simple sentence
What is this simile comparing?
"Her hair was like a birds nest"
The girl and a bird
Flying
The girls hair and a birds nest
Nest building skills
What does this metaphor mean?
Julia is a chicken.
Julia is scared
Julia walks like a chicken
Julia clucks like a chicken
Julia plays with everyone
What does this simile mean?
She swam like a fish
She swam slow
She swam very fast
She can't swim
She doesn't like water
The dragon was as big as a house.
Simile
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
Get off her high horse
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Idiom
Ms. Morris makes marvelous muffins
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Personification
Idiom
I'm sorry I was late for school, but it wasn't my fault. First, my alarm didn't go off in time and then it took my mom about a million years to make my breakfast. Then, I spilled syrup on my shirt and had to change it. Then, I couldn't I find my homework.
simile
metaphor
idiom
hyperbole
Keith is a shining star
Metaphor
idiom
personification
simile
Dying of Laughter
personification
metaphor
hyperbole
idiom
The trees danced in the window.
Personification
idiom
alliteration
hyperbole
Time is money
hyperbole
idiom
metaphor
alliteration
The sun happily greeted everyone "good morning."
metaphor
idiom
personification
alliteration
Life is A dream is a ...
(a)
Pyro's eyes were as green as a spring meadow.
idiom
metaphor
smile
smilie
Explain the meaning of the simile below.
The road was as flat as a pancake.
The road was the color of a pancake.
The road had a lot of bumps.
The road was very flat.
The road was in Waco.
Explain the meaning of the personification below.
The trees danced in the wind.
The trees were falling down.
The trees were swaying back and forth.
The wind was really loud.
The trees were doing the griddy.
Select ALL of the examples of onomatopoeia below.
(There is more than one correct answer.)
The leaves crunched under Aliyah's feet as she walked through the woods.
Aiden's teeth chattered as he stood in the snow.
Talya ran to school.
Esau stood on a rock.
What type of figurative language gives human qualities to objects or animals?
Similie
Onomatopoeia
personification
Metaphor
Which of the following is NOT an example of onomatopoeia?
buzz
meow
book
splat
Which is NOT an example of a simile?
Her heart is like gold.
He is as busy as a bee.
Life is a rollercoaster.
She is larger than life.
When words sound like their meaning they are using...
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Analogy
Oxymoron
Which figurative language is an exaggeration that is so dramatic, no one could believe it?
Metaphor
Analogy
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
The water made a sound like kittens lapping.
(a)
People moved slowly then, There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with.
(a)
My knees were jelly.
(a)
The clouds were as soft as cotton.
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Define Onomatopoeia
a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"
the repetition of beginning letters or sounds
an extreme exaggeration
sounds in word form
A hyperbole is best described as
the repetition of beginning sounds or letters
a word that describes a noun
an extreme exaggeration
sound in word form
a direct comparision between two unlike things
metaphor
simile
imagery
alliteration
an exaggeration used to emphasize humor
hyperbole
comedian
clown
metaphor
language that gives human qualities to nonhuman things
imagery
simile
personification
toys
