Figurative Language Quiz

Match the following figurative language term with its correct definition: an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Match the following figurative language term with its correct definition: the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in the beginning of a series of words.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Match the following figurative language term with its correct definition: a group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

Match the following figurative language term with its correct definition: a comparison of two unlike things using the word like or as.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Match the following figurative language term with its correct definition: a reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Allusion

Match the following figurative language term with its correct definition: a comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing is a dissimilar object.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Match the following figurative language term with its correct definition: giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Match the following figurative language term with its correct definition: a phrase with words that contradict each other with opposite meanings.

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Match the following figurative language term with its correct definition: words whose sounds suggest their meaning.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia