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Figurative Language Assessment 1

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 46mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"Honey, I'd walk through fire for you. Just let me adore you." - (Adore You by Harry Styles) This is an example of....

a)

an Idiom

b)

a Metaphor

c)

a Hyperbole

d)

Alliteration

2.

"Time goes by a little less slowly when I'm out my mind
Thought you said, "I need you more than ever"
So why'd you have to hide?
I need you more than ever
Don't let me die

I need you more now" (Happier by Yungblud)

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Idiom

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

3.

"'Cause baby, you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth" (Firework by Katy Perry) this is an example of...

a)

Symbol

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Idiom

d)

Metaphor

4.
  1. “Spit fire like a dragon, heating up the track” – (Spitfire by Juice WRLD)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Idiom

5.

Wish we could turn back time
To the good old days
When our mama sang us to sleep (Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots)

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Personification

c)

Imagery

d)

Idiom

6.

Your stare was holdin'
Ripped jeans, skin was showin'
Hot night, wind was blowin'
(Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen)

a)

Imagery

b)

Metaphor

c)

Alliteration

d)

Hyperbole

7.

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen…
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside (Let if Go from Frozen)

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Imagery

c)

Simile

d)

Idiom

8.

"Said I’m so sick of love songs, so sad and slow" (So Sick by Ne-Yo)

a)

Idiom

b)

Simile

c)

Alliteration

d)

Personification

9.

“Boom, boom, boom, gotta get that
Boom, boom, boom, gotta get that” (Boom, Boom, Pow by The Black Eyed Peas)

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Imagery

c)

Alliteration

d)

Hyperbole

10.

Can't you hear that
Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass? (Super Bass by Nicki Minaj)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Simile

11.

"Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance" (Fireflies by Owl City)

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Alliteration

d)

Imagery

12.

“I can’t tell you what it really is
I can only tell you what it feels like
And right now there’s a steel knife in my windpipe
I can’t breathe but I still fight while I can fight” (Love The Way You Lie by Eminem and Rihanna)

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Idiom

c)

Simile

d)

Symbolism

13.

My AP goin' psycho, lil' mama bad like Michael
Can't really trust nobody with all this jewelry on you (Psycho by Post Malone)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Imagery

14.

"Find light in the beautiful sea, I choose to be happy
You and I, you and I, we're like diamonds in the sky" (Diamonds by Rihanna)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Personification

d)

Simile

15.

Oh, you are
My sunrise
on the darkest day
Got me feelin' some kind of way (Despacito by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber)

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Metaphor

d)

Rhyme

16.

"I do whatever it takes
'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Whatever it takes" (Whatever It Takes By Imagine Dragons)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Idiom

c)

Simile

d)

Imagery

17.

"Keep it together
Smile on your face, even though your heart is frowning" (Long As You Love Me by Justin Bieber)

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Metaphor

c)

Alliteration

d)

Personification

18.

"You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between the eyes" (Thriller by Michael Jackson)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Hyoerbole

c)

Personification

d)

Imagery

19.

"Black, black, black and blue
Beat
me 'til I'm numb" (Grenade by Bruno Mars)

a)

Imagery

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

20.

"… So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames" (Blank Spaces by Tylor Swift)

a)

Simile

b)

Idiom

c)

Imagery

d)

Symbol

21.

"I can't live a lie, running for my life" (Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus)

a)

Alliteration

b)

Idiom

c)

Metaphor

d)

Imagery

22.

"The silence is deafening
My words cut deep
The darkness is blinding (Identity Disorder by Of Mice and Men)"

a)

Personification

b)

Idiom

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Metaphor

23.

"Cling, Cling, Cling. Man you cappin. Ooh, Ahh. Cling, Cling, Cling, Cling. You Cappin. Drip, Splash, Water, Drip, Splash, Drip Water, Splish, Splash" (Cling, Cling, Cling by Smoke Chedda)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Idiom

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Hyperbole