Figurative Language Vocabulary Quiz

What is figurative language?

• A direct and literal use of words in writing or speech

• Use of words or phrases that are not meant to be taken literally, but to create a special meaning

• A comparison that includes like or as

• A word or expression that has the same meaning as another in the same language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What does a simile do?

• Gives human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

• Expresses a general truth about people or the world

• Makes a comparison that includes like or as

• Describes an expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of its individual words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does not include like or as

• A word or expression that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language

• A well-known phrase expressing a general truth about people or the world

• An act of giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• A comparison that includes like or as

• An act of giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

• A well-known phrase or sentence that gives advice or says something that is generally true

• A word or expression that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What is an idiom?

• A word or expression that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language

• A comparison that does not include like or as

• An expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of its individual words

• A well-known phrase expressing a general truth about people or the world

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is an adage?

• A comparison that includes like or as

• A well-known phrase expressing a general truth about people or the world

• An act of giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

• A word or expression that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is a proverb?

• A word or expression that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language

• A comparison that includes like or as

• An expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of its individual words

• A well-known phrase or sentence that gives advice or says something that is generally true

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is a synonym?

• A comparison that does not include like or as

• An act of giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

• A well-known phrase expressing a general truth about people or the world

• A word or expression that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What is the meaning of the word "antonym"?

• A word that is spelled like another word but has a different meaning

• A word that means the opposite of another word

• The highest point of something, especially the top of a mountain

• A story from ancient times

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What does "homograph" refer to?

• A word that means the opposite of another word

• A feeling of being uncertain about something

• A word that is spelled like another word but has a different meaning from it

• Singing something quietly and gently

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C