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The Great Gatsby - Figurative Language

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What figurative language is used in the phrase "The cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses."?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

2.

What type of figurative language is used in the phrase "Men and girls came and went like moths"?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

3.

What type of figurative language is used in the phrase '[There were] enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.'?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

4.

What type of figurative language is used in the phrase "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life"?

a)

Paradox

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

5.

What type of figurative language is represented by the phrase "He's a regular Belasco"?

a)

Allusion

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

6.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'I'm paralyzed with happiness.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

7.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

8.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'Wreck of a Ford crouched in a dim corner.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

9.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

10.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'A grey old man who [absurdly so looked like] John D. Rockefeller.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Allusion

11.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'The cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

12.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'When she moved there was an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down her arms.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Personification

13.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'Men and girls came and went like moths.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

14.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: '[There were] enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

15.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Paradox

d)

Personification

16.

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'He's a regular Belasco.'

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Allusion

17.

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'The whole clan [...] flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near.'

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

18.

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'I didn’t want you to think I was just some nobody.'

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Paradox

d)

Onomatopoeia

19.

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'I heard the familiar ‘jug-jug-spat!’ of a cycle.'

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

20.

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets.'

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

21.

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'His shirts piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.'

a)

A) Simile

b)

B) Metaphor

c)

C) Personification

d)

D) Onomatopoeia

22.

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: '[Daisy’s] voice was a deathless song.'

a)

A) Simile

b)

B) Metaphor

c)

C) Personification

d)

D) Onomatopoeia

23.

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'The pebbles on the drive crunched under Tom’s feet.'

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

24.

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'At [Gatsby’s] lips’ touch [Daisy] blossomed for him like a flower.'

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

25.

Identify the figurative language used in the quote: "The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

26.

Identify the figurative language used in the quote: "A fog horn was groaning incessantly on the sound."

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

d)

hyperbole

27.

Identify the figurative language used in the quote: "At any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders."

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

28.

Identify the figurative language used in the quote: "All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues."

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

29.

Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "His [Gatsby’s] career as Trimalchio was over."

a)

Simile

b)

Alliteration

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Allusion

e)

Paradox

30.

Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "Their footsteps had clicked together."

a)

Paradox

b)

Simile

c)

Alliteration

d)

Oxymoron

e)

Onomatopoeia

31.

Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "Small gray clouds took on fantastic shapes and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind."

a)

Simile

b)

Alliteration

c)

Personification

d)

Oxymoron

e)

Paradox

32.

Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues."

a)

Personification

b)

Alliteration

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Simile

e)

Paradox

33.

Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "She was dressed to play golf and I remember thinking she looked like a good illustration."

a)

Paradox

b)

Alliteration

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Simile

e)

Personification