Figurative Language & Sound Devices 1

For this Quizizz session, identify the figurative language device used in each sentence.

Tripping over my ball glove, Mom yelled angrily, "I have told you a gazillion times to keep your ball glove off the stairs!"

• onomatopoeis

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Just as I slid into home plate, I heard a snap and a pop! It was then I realized my leg was broken.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Jansen is like a bowl of firecrackers near an open flame; you never know when he's going to let you have it.

• metaphor

• simile

• assonance

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Sadie sat silently staring out the window at the noon day sun.

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Well, toss the glass and kiss the boss! We finally got a raise!" Bess screamed as she saw her new contract.

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• oxymoron

"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

As for one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

• hyperbole

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

"Well, I guess it's back to square one," Mr. Jamison muttered after he posted the mid-year Algebra II grades.

• hyperbole

• idiom/idiomatic expression

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Jennifer's twins are the biggest little boys I have ever seen.

• oxymoron

• idiom

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

My cat is a furry alien whose bizarre behaviors keep us in stitches.

• oxymoron

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Snow covers the city like blankets of white and sparkling diamonds.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D