Figurative Language Quiz

When poets use words that imitate sounds, what type of figurative language are they using?

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

True or false this is a idiom.

My friend is as busy a bee.

• True

• False

What is the definition a hyperbole

• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Select all the similes.

• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

• We heard the vroom of the car’s engine as it whizzed by and screeched around the corner

• Love is like a faucet; it turns off and on.

Mickey Mouse was running when he heard "boom!"

What type of figurative language is this?

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

She swam like a shark.

This is a ________.

Life is a rollercoaster, going up and down.

• Simile

• Metaphor

She sells seashells on the seashore.

• Idiom

• Alliteration

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia