Figurative Language Quiz

Comparing using "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Comparing WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving a person actions or feelings to animals or things

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A word that sounds like what we hear

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Words that start with the same sound are repeated

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Match the following

• Personification

• She is a night owl.

• Simile

• The thunder is angry. 

• Metaphor

• It is light as a feather. 

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Match the following

• Simile

• The car horn beeped.

• Alliteration

• He swam like a fish

• Onomatopoeia

• Kangaroo kicked the kid. 

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

When a non-human object is given human characteristics

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When a word imitates the natural sounds of a thing

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5