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The Feather Pillow (FIg Lang/Vocab)

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects, using either like or as?

a)

Foreshadowing

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

2.

What is a figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Foreshadowing

3.

What is the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Foreshadowing

4.

What is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

d)

Allusion

5.

What is descriptive or figurative language in literature to create word pictures for the reader using sensory details?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Imagery

c)

Personification

d)

Imagination

6.

What is the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating?

a)

Anemia

b)

Clamor

c)

Resonance

d)

Insidiously

7.

What is a condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness?

a)

Resonance

b)

Insidiously

c)

Anemia

d)

Clamor

8.

What does it mean to shout loudly and insistently?

a)

Insidious

b)

Clamor

c)

Diminutive

d)

Viscous

9.

What does it mean to make someone unable to think or feel properly?

a)

Anemia

b)

Bliss

c)

Stupefy

d)

Crepuscular

10.

What is of, resembling, or relating to twilight?

a)

Crepuscular

b)

Diminutive

c)

Bliss

d)

Stupor

11.

What is perfect happiness; great joy?

a)

Crepuscular

b)

Diminutive

c)

Stupor

d)

Bliss

12.

What is a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility?

a)

Bliss

b)

Stupor

c)

Diminutive

d)

Crepuscular

13.

What is extremely or unusually small?

a)

Resonance

b)

Stupefy

c)

Stupor

d)

Diminutive

14.

What is resembling a human being in form?

a)

Diminutive

b)

Proboscis

c)

Viscous

d)

Anthropoid

15.

What is having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid; having a high viscosity?

a)

Diminutive

b)

Proboscis

c)

Viscous

d)

Anthropoid