Figurative Language Quiz

An onomatopoeia is…

• A word that imitates a sound

• A phrase comparing two things using like or as

• An exaggeration

• A phrase using two words that appear to be opposites

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A comparison using like or as is called a

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a hyperbole?

• A colloquial word or phrase

• A phrase comparing two things without like or as

• When the reader knows something the characters do not

• An exaggeration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Provide one example of an idiom.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is dramatic irony?

• Literary device where the character knows more than the audience or reader

• Literary device where the audience or reader knows more than the character

• The equivalent of stage directions

• An exaggeration

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Provide one example of an onomatopoeia.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which is an example of assonance?

• Blisters blazed a trail down her heel

• Another eager beaver chugged water

• Another antelope aimed for the river

• Cackling crows crowded the line

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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 phrase is an example of a literary apostrophe?

• “Way out where the crawdads sing”

• “Oh, what have we done?”

• “Death: Be not proud!”

• “To be or not to be”

The dictionary definition of a word is also called its

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Hints at future events provided by the author are called…

• Hypophora

• Mind Reading

• Foretelling

• Foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5