Figurative Language Review

"Her face was as red as a tomato" is an example of which kind of figurative language?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison using like or as is which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A word whose sounds suggests its meaning is which type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"He thought he was going to die from embarrassment" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole
• Assonance
• Idiom
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Your room is a pigsty!" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A reference to a well-known work of literature, art, music, etc. is what type of figurative language?

• Personification
• Idiom
• Allusion
• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. (kind of like rhyming) is what kind of figurative language?

• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The use of vivid description to create a picture in the reader’s mind is what type of figurative language?

• Simile
• Idiom
• Personification
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"The golden yellow sunlight filtered down through the pale new leaves on the oak trees, coming to rest on Jessica's brown toes that were splayed in the red Georgia mud" is an example of which kind of figurative language?

• Idiom
• Imagery
• Assonance
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A group of words used in a phrase or expression which means something different than what the words actually say is what kind of figurative language?

• Idiom
• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4