Figurative Language Test

a way of describing something by comparing it with something else using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

My words are little jars

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• imagery

to compare something that is not human as if it had human characteristics

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• idiom

A way of describing something by comparing it to something else

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

• assonance

jet-black night; / It stares through the window-pane

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

the stars threw down their spears

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Repetition of the first consonant

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

• assonance

Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

The repetition of internal vowel sounds. Doesn't have to rhyme!!

• assonance

• metaphor

• simile

• personification