Figurative Devices- Grade 8

"Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

The irony is when an event or response occurs that is the ____________ of what is expected.

• similar

• opposite

• quite similar

• related to

"It is raining cats and dogs" is an example of a _________.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

• alliteration

"The trees waved in the wind" is an example of ________

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

The leaves went "crunch crunch" under my feet as I walked through the woods" is an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

"My hands were icicles because of the cold weather"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

"Jerome is a lion in the jungle when it comes on to the field" is

• simile

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

"Marshal cried out as loudly as nine or ten thousand men."

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

• personification

Jones was creeping as quietly as a mouse so that his mother couldn't hear him coming in late

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• alliteration

Which of the following best describes an idiom?

• Comparing two unlike things using "as" or "like"

• Giving non-living things human-like qualities

• A statement not to be taken literally

• making an exaggerated statement