Figurative Language Quiz

The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.

• alliteration

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical senses.

• Metaphor

• imagery

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar.

• Simile

• Analogy

• metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Representing a thing or idea as a person in art, literature.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.

• Metaphor

• allusion

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole.

• idiom

• Homonym

• Antonym

• Synonym

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect; understatement.

• Hyperbole

• meiosis

• Irony

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The forming of a word in imitation of a natural sound.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as.

• simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D