Figurative Language Quiz

Match the following terms to their definitions:

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

• Onomatopoeia

• sound words

• Simile

• giving human characteristics to nonhumans

• Metaphor

• a direct comparison using like or as

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• a phrase that means something different than its official meaning

• imagery

• using descriptive words to paint a picture

• idiom

• repeated consonant sounds

• Hyperbole

• an extreme exaggeration

• alliteration

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

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

 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

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

...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

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

 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

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

My father was the sun and the moon to me. 

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• simile

• personification

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4