Figurative Language Practice

What is the repetition of consonant sounds in words close together called?

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which type of figurative language involves words that sound like the actions or noises they’re referring to?

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is it called when you compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which figurative language compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Verbal Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an extreme exaggeration to emphasize a point called?

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Situational Irony

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language gives human characteristics or abilities to an animal, object, or abstract idea?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Verbal Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a phrase that has a different meaning than what it actually says called?

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

When a person says the opposite of what they really mean, which type of figurative language are they using?

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

What is it called when the situation that occurs is the opposite of what most people would expect?

• Verbal Irony

• Hyperbole

• Situational Irony

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Bouncing balloons blew away in the breeze.

Something slimy slid across the sand.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4