Figures of Speech (Simile and Metaphor)

1. What figure of speech is the statement below?

This bedroom is a prison.

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

2. What are the two things being compared?

This bedroom is a prison.

• this and bedroom

• bedroom and is

• is and prison

• bedroom and prison

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

3. What figure of speech is the statement below?

She sings like an angel.

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

4. What are the two things being compared?

She sings like an angel.

• she and sings

• sings and like

• she and angel

• like and angel

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

5. What figure of speech is the statement below?

The tide waits for no man.

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

6. What is the inanimate object and human quality in the statement below?

The tide waits for no man.

• tide and waits

• waits and man

• tide and man

• waits and no

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

7. What figure of speech is the statement below?

All of his attempts end in smoke.

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

8. What does end in smoke mean?

All of his attempts end in smoke.

• succeeded

• failed

• put on hold

• skipped

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

9. Which of the following is an example of a simile?

• He listened with a stone face.

• Be careful not to miss the boat.

• My car tends to give up on long hills.

• He eats like a gannet.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

9. Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• This is the last straw.

• Summer's healing rays.

• She's a brave soldier.

• It's like water off a duck's back.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4