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WorksheetsFigures of Speech Challenge
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is a simile?
A comparison using "like" or "as.
An exaggerated statement.
A direct comparison without using "like" or "as".
A recurring theme.
Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
The stars danced in the night sky.
The wind whispered through the trees.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Time flies like an arrow..
What is the primary characteristic of an oxymoron?
It compares two unrelated things.
It combines two contradictory words or phrases.
It uses a single word to convey a complex idea.
It is a rhetorical question that does not require an answer.
What literary device is used in the phrase "The sun smiled down on us"?
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Oxymoron
What is the term for the use of a part to represent the whole?
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Hyperbole
Personification
Which of the following scenarios best illustrates irony, where the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs?
A teacher who loves reading never finishes a book.
A lifeguard who is afraid of water.
A chef who burns their own dinner.
All of the above
Which literary device involves giving human-like qualities to non-human things?
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Which of the following phrases is an example of an oxymoron?
Deafening silence
Bright darkness
Living dead
All of the above
What is onomatopoeia?
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things.
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
A type of irony.
A narrative technique.
10.Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
I’m so tired I could sleep for a year.
The car zoomed down the street.
She has a heart of stone.
The book was a real page-turner.
