Identifying Figures of Speech
Authored by Sarah Williams
English
11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The deafening silence was broken by the crash of a falling tree.
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Personification
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
He's so hungry he could eat a horse.
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
With a mighty leap, the tiger shattered the silence of the jungle.
Personification
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Her words were daggers, each one cutting deeper than the last.
Irony
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.8.5A
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The mountain stood proud, a mighty fortress guarding the valley below.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In the end, we are all puppets, our strings pulled by unseen forces.
Metaphor
Irony
Hyperbole
Personification
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
that beauty was a thing fashioned by the traders in words. Tired I shut the book and snuffed the candle.
Simile
Metaphor
Repetition
Hyperbole
Personification
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
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