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.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

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

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

An expression which means something different than what the words actually say is what kind of figurative language?

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is which type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

The repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in a series of words is which type of figurative language?

• Idiom

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true is which type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Idiom
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as is which type of figurative language?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

Different figures of speech that goes beyond the literal meanings of the words to be more descriptive. 

• Figurative Language 
• Assonance 
• Idiom
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Using the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Idiom