Figurative Language Quiz

Comparing using "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Personification

Comparing WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

Giving a person actions or feelings to animals or things

• Personification

• Alliteration

A word that sounds like what we hear

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Words that start with the same sound are repeated

• Alliteration

• Simile

Match the following

• Personification

• She is a night owl.

• Simile

• It is light as a feather. 

• Metaphor

• The thunder is angry. 

Match the following

• Simile

• Kangaroo kicked the kid. 

• Onomatopoeia

• The car horn beeped.

• Alliteration

• He swam like a fish

When a non-human object is given human characteristics

• Personification

• Metaphor

When two unlike things are compared using 'like' or 'as'

• Simile

• Metaphor

When a word imitates the natural sounds of a thing

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration