Figurative Language Quiz

Match the following figurative language with its definition.

• an extreme exaggeration

• Simile

• comparing two things using like or as

• personification

• comparing two things NOT using like or as.

• Alliteration

• giving human qualities to non human things.

• Metaphor

• The repetition of three or more consonant sounds.

• hyperbole

I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark,

or eat spinach and liver then tackle the homework my teacher assigns.

• personofication

• idiom

• metaphor

• hyperbole

The fire hungrily devoured everything in its path.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Allusion

When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Which of the following is NOT a simile?

• The moon is like pizza.

• I like pizza.

• It was as bright as a star.

• The fan was like a cool, ocean breeze.

When a word sounds like its meaning.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

Compares two things without the use of "like" or "as."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Standing tall and frozen like statues in a vacant courtyard

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

The rootbeer fizzed as I poured it into my cup.

• metaphoroeia

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?

The students are as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole