Figurative Language Practice Quiz

Comparing two or more things using "like" or "as".

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

Attribute human characteristics to something that is not human.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Literary device that uses similar phonetic sounds in continuity to make an effect.

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

A common way of saying something using a phrase.

• Simile

• Personification

• Idioms

• Alliteration

What is being personified?

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

Be not her maid, since she is envious”

• Moon

• Grief

• Envy

• Sickness

What is being personified?

"said the sunflowers, shining with dew.

“Our traveling habits have tired us.

Can you give us a room with a view?”

• Dew

• Sunflowers

• Room

Identify the similes in the following sentences.

Kitty is as proud as a peacock.

Sruthy works like a sloth.

• proud as a peacock

  works like a sloth

• Sruthy works

  Kitty is as proud

                Identify the similes in the following sentences.

Iniyan is always as busy as a bee.

My cousin chatters like a monkey.

• Iniyan is always as

  My cousin chatters

• as busy as a bee

  chatters like a monkey

Write the alliteration found in the line:

•The wind swayed softly and smoothly.

Write the alliteration found in the line:

•He held her hands.