Figurative Language Test Prep

an object that stands for an idea

• irony

• pun

• allusion

• symbolism

a reference to a famous person, place, or event

• irony

• paradox

• allusion

• symbolism

a joke using different definitions of multiple meaning words

• imagery

• idiom

• pun

• alliteration

vivid descriptions that appeal to the senses

• figurative languae

• hyperbole

• imagery

• personification

a statement that is contradictory, but actually true

• paradox

• irony

• pun

• idiom

What uses the words like or as to make a comparison between two essentially unlike things?

• simile

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• personification

What communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words?

• free verse

• metaphor

• figurative language

• simile

What gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea?

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• free verse

Why does the poet use the extended metaphor of the disaster movie at the beginning of the excerpt from the poem “After the Hurricane”?

• To compare the setting of the poem to something readers can understand

• To introduce readers to the kinds of people who live near Lake George

• To help readers visualize what a movie set of New Orleans looks like

• To give readers some additional information about the speaker and her friends

What is a comparison of two or more things WITHOUT using like or as?

• figurative language

• simile

• metaphor

• free verse