Stargirl Final Test with Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is this?

Maybe the music was a tether. Or a kite string.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What type of figurative language is this?

I just hope things don't get out of hand when we get back to the school.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is this?

...did you ever hear of counting your chickens?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is this?

Her eyes covered me like the sky.

There are 2 answers!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is this?

...I had to, so to speak, touch the stove that I knew was hot.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is this?

...it skipped over me like a flat stone on water.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is this?

...where "Hi" was as rare as rain.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is this?

Unlike Stargirl, I was aware of the constant anger of our schoolmates, seething like snakes under a porch.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is this?

"I search through fillers like a prospector digging for gold," she said.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is this?

...I was as proud as a first-grader with a star on his paper.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3