Figurative Language Review

What is the correct definition of a simile?

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• A phrase that contrasts two objects.

• A comparison using the words "like" or "as."

• A comparison NOT using the words "like" or "as."

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the correct definition of a metaphor?

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• A phrase that contrast s two objects.

• A comparison using the words "like" or "as."

• A comparison NOT using the words "like" or "as."

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the correct definition of personification?

• Making reference to a character from another text in order to show a comparison.

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• A phrase that contrasts two objects.

• All of the above.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is the correct definition of hyperbole?

• A word that imitates a sound.l

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objectsl

• A comparison NOT using the words "like" or "as."

• An extreme exaggeration.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is the correct definition of onomatopoeia?

• A word that imitates a sound.

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• A comparison using the words "like": or "as."

• None of the above.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the correct definition of an idiom?

• An expression that means exactly what the words state.

• A word that imitates a sound.

• An extreme exaggeration.

• An expression that means something different that what the words state.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is the correct definition of alliteration?

• A word that imitates a sound.

• An extreme exaggeration.

• The repetition of beginning sounds.

• Giving human characteristics of inanimate objects.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the correct definition of allusion?

• Making reference to a character or event from another piece of literature.

• A word that imitates a sound.

• An extreme exaggeration.

• The representation of something by an object.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"When pigs fly" is an example of which figurative language?

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• irony

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"Boom!" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• idiom

• alliteration

• irony

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5