Figurative Language and Vocabulary In Context Quiz

Why does a writer use figurative language?

• to make his or her writing more evocative and visual; it brings to life words to form pictures
• to complicate the life of the reader
• to draw pictures for the reader to keep him or her entertained while reading
• to help the writer stay focused while writing 

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.W.9-10.3D

His mind is a deep well of knowledge. 

• simile
• metaphor
• personification 
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Giving inanimate objects human like qualities, emotions, or actions" is one definition of the following figurative language device: 

• hyperbole
• allusion 
• personification 
• imagery 

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Nature wears the lush beauty of summer proudly.

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

"Wake not, stubborn fear. You sleep outside the door of my heart and, though, I cannot see you, I hear your breaths like the heavy heaves and falls of a dragon breathing as it sleeps." The previous passage contains ALL the figurative language devices EXCEPT for which one?

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

The baby's shriek could lacerate (tear) a person's eardrums. 

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor

The cottony clouds billowed in the summer sky, a fluffy pattern to be admired by the soft hearts of youth. 

• simile
• metaphor
• imagery 
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"A comparison of two unalike things using like or as to make the comparison" is a definition of which of the following figurative language devices:

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

"A comparison of two unalike things WITHOUT using like or as to make the comparison" is the definition of which figurative language term?

• simile
• onomatopoeia
• allusion 
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

His broken heart shattered into a thousand pieces.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification