FIGURES OF SPEECH GRADE 6

1.    Which of these sentences contains a metaphor?

• The candles screamed with fury.

• Some people soak up information like sponges.

• My father is a fountain of information on sports.

• Purple penguins prefer pink pickles.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

1.    What figure of speech is illustrated in the poem below?

Candles

The candles screamed with fury

Her tears trickled down her face.

With figure slumped,

She slowly dwindled into shadows.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• personification

• Irony

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

“Whoosh, whoosh” of the howling wind can be heard in darkness is example of:

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following is NOT a metaphor?

• The smoke was cotton balls billowing from the chimney.

• The stage was a canvass upon which the play was painted.

• The sun was a furnace.

• Don ate his salad like a vacuum cleaner.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I am starving. I could eat a whole cow.

What figure of speech is being shown in the above statement?

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The situation outside gets pretty ugly. You should stay at home.

This statement is an example of ________

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Personification

• Hyperole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A tree that looks at God all day 

And lifts her leafy arms to pray

  A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair.

The underlined phrases show________.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Irony

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

She sells seashells from the seashore

This shows ___________

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The policeman was arrested after being caught on a buy bust operation.

What figurative language is being used in the statement?

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Kaboom! The bite of dynamite cut deep inside the earth!

This shows _____________

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4