Figurative Language Quiz

Match the following terms to their definitions:

• giving human characteristics to nonhumans

• Metaphor

• a direct comparison of unlike things (using is/are)

• Onomatopoeia

• a direct comparison using like or as

• Personification

• sound words

• Simile

Tags

TEKS.ELA.5.10D

TEKS.ELA.5.9B

TEKS.ELA.E2.2B

TEKS.ELA.E4.7B

TEKS.ELA.LG.2I

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• a phrase that means something different than its official meaning

• Hyperbole

• an extreme exaggeration

• idiom

• repeated consonant sounds

• alliteration

• using descriptive words to paint a picture

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

All the beautiful stars of the sky, The

silver doves of the forest of Night,

Over the dull earth swarm and fly,

Companions of our flight.

-James Thomson

What two things are being compared in the

metaphor above?

• Stars and Sky

• birds and companions

• stars and birds

• night and flight

Tags

TEKS.ELA.5.10D

TEKS.ELA.6.9D

TEKS.ELA.8.9D

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.MATH.7.9D

We will rush ever on without fear; Let

the goal be far, the flight be fleet! For we

carry the Heavens with us, dear,

While the Earth slips from our feet!

-James Thomson

Fear, far, flight, fleet, feet... is an example of what type of figurative language?

•  Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

TEKS.ELA.1.9B

TEKS.ELA.4.10D

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

 Life without love is a year without Summer

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The line above is an example of which figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9E

TEKS.ELA.7.9E

TEKS.ELA.8.9E

TEKS.ELA.E2.7B

TEKS.ELA.E4.7B

...all the memories that hang upon

And cling around about us as a garment,

Clothing us in a robe of more than glory...

-Edgar Allen Poe

The memories cling around us as a garment

(clothing) is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

TEKS.ELA.5.9B

TEKS.ELA.6.9E

TEKS.ELA.7.9E

TEKS.ELA.8.9E

TEKS.ELA.E2.7B

 The leaves fly over the window and

utter a word as they pass...

-D. H. Lawrence

This is an example of which figurative language?

•  personification

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.9E

TEKS.ELA.7.9E

TEKS.ELA.8.9E

TEKS.ELA.E2.7B

TEKS.ELA.E3.7B

My father was the sun and the moon to me. 

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

TEKS.ELA.5.10D

TEKS.ELA.6.9D

TEKS.ELA.8.9D

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.MATH.7.9D

After the drought, the rain seemed like an old friend who had finally found us.

• simile

• personification

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

Tags

TEKS.ELA.5.8

TEKS.ELA.6.7

TEKS.ELA.7.7

TEKS.ELA.8.7

TEKS.ELA.E4.6

He was a library of information when it came to baseball. 

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.7

TEKS.ELA.7.7

TEKS.ELA.8.7

TEKS.ELA.E1.6

TEKS.ELA.E3.6