Figurative Language Review Test

Which word describes language that paints a picture in your mind, appealing directly to your senses?

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• imagery

What's that super dramatic way of talking that's not just big, it's HUGE, to make things more exciting or emphasize a point?

• assonance

• repetition

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

What's it called when we give human-like qualities to non-living objects? Imagine your laptop yawning when it boots up slowly!

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

A DIRECT comparison of two seemingly unlike things.

• idiom

• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

What's the term for a word that mimics a sound? Think of comics!

• assonance

• hyperbole

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

What's the term for when you hear the same starting sound dancing at the beginning of words close to each other, like 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'?

• simile

• imagery

• consonance

• alliteration

What's the term for the catchy repetition of inner vowel sounds in words close to each other?

• assonance

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

"Buzz - says the great buzzing bee." Can you guess which figure of speech this is?

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

"The air is like a butterfly" - Can you guess the figure of speech used here?

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Imagine the wind standing tall and shouting out loud! What literary device is being used here?

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• onomatopoeia