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Figurative Language Recap

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The street cars are like frosted cakes covered with snowflakes.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

2.

The west wind dances down the road.

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Alliteration

3.

She’s as tiny as a mouse.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Oxymoron

4.

Her blonde hair shined like the sun.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

5.

Polly Peters positively played Ping-Pong.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Onomatopeia

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

6.

When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

7.

“Crack” went the bat as the pitcher hit a home run.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Onomatopeia

d)

Alliteration

8.

The kite drank the wind and laughed across the sky.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Oxymoron

9.

Happy Harry handles handsprings horribly.

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Alliteration

10.

The hockey player lost his control when the puck ran across the ice.

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

11.

The snow on the ski hill was powdered sugar.

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Metaphor

d)

Oxymoron

12.

The coach was as upset as a lion when his team lost the game.

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Simile

c)

Alliteration

d)

Hyperbole

13.

Freddy French fired five fabulous free throws.

a)

Simile

b)

Alliteration

c)

Metaphor

d)

Oxymoron

14.

The snowmobile was a rocket in the newly fallen snow.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Hyperbole

15.

I’d catch a grenade for you.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Alliteration

16.

The stars in the night sky were diamonds scattered across the velvet.

a)

Personification

b)

Alliteration

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

17.

The thunder grumbled like an old man.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

18.

The leaves whispered secrets to the wind.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

19.

The microwave and the coffee maker wave at me early in the morning.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

20.
_____a figure of speech in which two a things are compared, NOT using like or as 
a)
Simile 
b)
Metaphor 
c)
Personification