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Figurative Language (2023)

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What compares two things using the words "like" or "as."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

personification

2.

What compares two things by stating that one thing IS another?

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

personification

3.

What is the repetition of the first consonant sounds in several words?

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

personification

4.

What is an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point?

a)

hyperbole

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

personification

d)

idiom

5.

What is the use of words that sound like their meaning, or words that mimic sounds?

a)

hyperbole

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

personification

d)

idiom

6.

What gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas?

a)

hyperbole

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

personification

d)

oxymoron

7.

Your eyes are like pools of blue.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

e)

alliteration

8.

The chair groaned when the man sat on it.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

e)

alliteration

9.

Mean Meghan might make me mad.

a)

oxymoron

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

idiom

e)

alliteration

10.

Penn Webb talks a mile a minute!

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

e)

hyperbole

11.

The insect buzzed past my ear.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

alliteration

e)

hyperbole

12.

My bedroom is a nightmare; there are piles of clothing everywhere!

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

alliteration

e)

hyperbole

13.

The pencil danced across the page.

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

simile

e)

hyperbole

14.

I have told you a million times to wash the dishes.

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

simile

e)

hyperbole

15.

These french fries are screaming for salt.

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

simile

e)

hyperbole

16.

Do you prefer pink or purple peonies?

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

simile

e)

alliteration

17.

The toast jumped out of the toaster.

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

simile

e)

alliteration

18.

America is a melting pot; people from many different cultures live in our country.

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

simile

e)

alliteration

19.

CRUNCH! He bit into the candy bar.

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

simile

e)

alliteration

20.

My Aunt Tilly was as busy as a bee, preparing her home for her guests.

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

simile

e)

alliteration

21.

My backpack weighs a ton!

a)

simile

b)

hyperbole

c)

personification

d)

metaphor

22.

The evening melted away like a snowflake.

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

simile

23.

Time is a thief.

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

24.

The surf surged up as the sun swept the shore.

a)

simile

b)

alliteration

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

25.

She clattered and clanged as she washed the dishes.

a)

alliteration

b)

hyperbole

c)

idiom

d)

onomatopoeia

26.

Time marches on.

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

alliteration

d)

onomatopoeia

27.

Homework is a breeze.

a)

alliteration

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

d)

personification

28.

Lisa's lizards were leaping on her lawnchair.

a)

hyperbole

b)

alliteration

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

personification

29.
What is the following statement an example of?
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
a)

simile

b)

metaphor

30.
What is the following statement an example of?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
a)

simile

b)

metaphor

31.
What is the following statement an example of?
The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
a)

simile

b)

metaphor

32.
My stomach did a backflip.
a)
personification
b)
metaphor
c)
simile
d)
onomatopoeia
33.
This school is an asylum.
a)
personification
b)
metaphor
c)
simile
d)
onomatopoeia
34.
I bolted out the door like a horse leaving the gate for a race.
a)
personification
b)
metaphor
c)
simile
d)
onomatopoeia
35.
I waited a million years for my ride to get to the house.
a)

alliteration

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

hyperbole

36.
The rope SNAPPED in half, and the panic in the child's face was evident.
a)
personification
b)
metaphor
c)
simile
d)
onomatopoeia
37.

The lawnmower roared to life.

a)

idiom

b)

personification

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole

38.

It's raining cats and dogs.

a)

idiom

b)

personification

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole

39.

The dog is so tiny he fits in my pocket.

a)

idiom

b)

personification

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole

40.

Silly Sam is surprising.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole

41.

She runs like the wind.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

alliteration

d)

hyperbole

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