WorksheetsHoot Figurative Language
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
A ribbon of bright pink plastic was tied to one end of the stick. The other end was sharpened and caked with grey dirt.
Personification
Imagery
Hyperbole
Analogy
Curly gestured at a hole in the ground. It was as big around as one of Mother Paula's famous buttermilk flapjacks.
Simile
Symbol
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Officer Delinko wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Imagery
Curly heard a cry and watched in surprise as the policeman burst from the doorway of the latrine, leaping off the flatbed like an Olympic hurdler.
Idiom
Simile
Hyperbole
Analogy
Roy figured it had been at least a hundred years since anyone named their daughter Beatrice.
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Symbolism
Dessert was an overbaked chocolate chip cookie the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.
Metaphor
Idiom
Simile
Alliteration
Owl: Hoot:: Dog:Woof
Analogy
Alliteration
Idiom
Symbolism
Using descriptive details to appeal to our senses.
idiom
Simile
Imagery
Alliteration
"Hoot" is an example of
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Which sentence includes a metaphor?
I swung the bat and "whack" hit a home run!
The candy was as sour as a lemon.
My baby brother is a sweet teddy bear.
Tommy took two tiny twigs.
When something that isn't human is given human characteristics.
Hyperbole
Personification
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Which sentences includes a hyperbole?
My hair is as messy as a hurricane.
My backpack weighs a ton!
Dean drank dozens of drinks.
The stars winked at me from the sky.
When a word represents a sound being made.
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Simile
When things are compared WITHOUT using the words like or as.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
"Tom is a human calculator" is a
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor?
The wind whispered through the trees.
The car zoomed down the road.
The sun was a golden coin in the sky.
The rain tapped on the window like a drummer.
Identify the figurative language used: 'The classroom was a zoo.'
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is used in the sentence: 'The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.'
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Which sentence is an example of hyperbole?
She was as busy as a bee.
He ran faster than the wind.
The book was a passport to adventure.
The leaves crunched underfoot.
In the sentence 'The thunder grumbled like an old man,' what figurative language is used?
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language: 'The flowers nodded their heads in the breeze.'
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
What is the figurative language in: 'Her smile was as bright as the sun'?
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Which of the following is an example of personification?
The leaves danced in the wind.
The cat purred softly.
The river was a ribbon of blue.
The cake was as sweet as honey.
Identify the figurative language: 'He has a heart of stone.'
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is used in: 'The lightning was fireworks in the sky'?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
