Figurative Language Assessment

Match the following definitions and terms

• hyperbole

• giving an object or animal human characteristics or intentions

• allusion

• an indirect reference to other literature, history or cultural knowledge

• personification

• a figure of speech that exaggerates for emphasis

• metaphor

• a comparison of two different things, typically saying one thing is something else

• simile

• a comparison of two different things using the words like or as

Analyze the line from Kendrick Lamar's song and decide what figurative language he uses:

"Now I done grew up 'round some people livin' their life in bottles"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

Analyze the line from Katy Perry's song and decide what figurative language she uses:

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag….drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?

• simile

• allusion

• metaphor

• hyperbole

50 Cent uses ____________ in the line "Girl you are a beauty well I am a beast"

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• allusion

Answer explanation

This is allusion, because he is making a reference to the well-known story of Beauty and the Beast.

When Moana sings: "See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me!" she is using ____________ to describe the horizon.

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• allusion

Answer explanation

This is personification, because the ocean cannot literally call out to someone.

Analyze the following song lyrics: Hello Darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Analyze the following song lyrics: "I'd catch a grenade for ya; I'd throw my head on a blade for ya; I'd jump in front of a train for ya" (Bruno Mars)

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Answer explanation

he repeats "for ya" over and over (hyperbole would also have been a correct answer)

When J. Cole described the United States with the following lines, what figurative language was he using?

"Look at the nation, that’s a crooked smile / Braces couldn’t even straighten / Seem like half the race is either on probation, or in jail"

• irony

• allusion

• simile

• metaphor

When Coolio sang "As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothing left," he was making a reference to a verse in the Bible. This is an example of ______________________.

• simile

• personification

• allusion

• hyperbole

"You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog / Quit snoopin’ ’round my door / You can wag your tail / But I ain’t gonna feed you no more."                       
                  - "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley

• simile
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• alliteration