Figurative Language Practice test

The pencil danced across the paper.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Life is like a box of chocolates.

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets!

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Tommy is a bull in a china shop.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Gabby gulped down the Mountain Dew.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Sally sold seashells by the seashore.

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

He told the actors to "break a leg" for good luck before the play began.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metophor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Match the following:

• metaphor

• Comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• personification

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

• alliteration

• the repetition of the same beginning sound

• hyperbole

• an exaggeration

• idiom

• A weird expression that means something other than what it actually says

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Write a sentence using a metaphor.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Write a sentence using a simile.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D