Figurative Language Quiz

What is a simile?

• An extreme exaggeration

• Compares two different things using "like" or "as"

• A word that represents sound

• Giving human characteristics to non-human objects

Which figurative language compares two different things without using "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

What is an idiom?

• An expression where words mean something different from a dictionary definition

• Using very descriptive language

• The same letter sound is repeated throughout a sentence

• An extreme exaggeration

What does hyperbole mean?

• A word that represents sound

• An extreme exaggeration

• Giving human characteristics to non-human objects

• Compares two different things using "like" or "as"

What is personification?

• Using very descriptive language

• Giving human characteristics to non-human objects

• An expression where words mean something different from a dictionary definition

• The same letter sound is repeated throughout a sentence

What is onomatopoeia?

• A word that represents sound

• An extreme exaggeration

• Compares two different things using "like" or "as"

• Using very descriptive language

What does imagery mean?

• Using very descriptive language

• The same letter sound is repeated throughout a sentence

• An expression where words mean something different from a dictionary definition

• Compares two different things without using "like" or "as"

What is alliteration?

• An extreme exaggeration

• The same letter sound is repeated throughout a sentence

• A word that represents sound

• Giving human characteristics to non-human objects

Compares two different things using "like" or "as"

• Analogy
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

Metaphor

• compares two different things using "like" or "as"

• compares two different things without using 'like' or 'as'

• A statement that is literally true and not figurative.
• A type of poem that uses rhyme and meter.