Figurative Language Quiz

comparing two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

when an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

comparing two unlike things NOT using the words 'like' or 'as'

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

a word imitating a sound like 'Bang!' or 'Kaboom!'

• personification

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

an exaggeration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

descriptive language using the five senses to create a picture in your mind

• oxymoron

• imagery

• simile

a common expression that doesn't mean what it literally says (ex. 'It's raining cats and dogs!' or 'Break a leg!)

• oxymoron

• idiom

• hyperbole

a bunch of words with the same beginning sounds (ex. 'The dizzy ducks danced down the road.')

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• allusion

The frog fainted in a field in Finland.

• alliteration

• allusion

• hyperbole

She saw the word through rose-colored glasses. (This doesn't mean she's wearing pink sunglasses. It means that she sees things in a positive, naive way.)

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom