Figurative Language Review Part I

Simile or Metaphor?
This house is as clean as a whistle.

• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
Jonathan was so exhausted he could have slept for a year.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
The girl was as bright as the sun. 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
You are an angel.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
She runs like the wind. 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
Billy Bob likes to eat bananas for breakfast. 

• Idiom
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
I am the smartest person in the universe. 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
Ring, Ring went my alarm clock. 

• Imagery
• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
Boom! The explosion rang through the air. 

• Imagery
• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the meaning of the idiom "I can't stop smiling. I've been on cloud nine all day."? 

• you are really high 
• you feel joyful 
• clouds are white 

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4