Figurative Language Poetry Review

What kind of figurative language is used in the statement below? "One day they hold you in the palms of their hands, gentle, like we're the last raw egg in the world."

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What kind of figurative language is used in the statement below?"The grass stood tall at first, but the longer it got, the more it started to shrug".

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Personification

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What kind of figurative language is used in the statement below?

"There’s a guy in a tux

And he stands in the corner

Feedin’ the jukebox his dimes".

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What kind of figurative language is used in the statement below?"Mr. Guthrie won’t be at school today, his wife said he’s sick as a dog."

• Irony

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

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 fig. language is the following sentence: She is as beautiful as a rose.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

_________________________ is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.

• Free verse

• Figurative language

• Mood

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Tree is to forest as building is to city is an example of which type of figurative language?

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• an allusion

• an analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What kind of figurative language is used in the statement below?

"There’s a faucet in the basement that had dripped one drop all year. Since he 'fixed' it, we can’t find it, without wearing scuba gear".

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Mile-high ice cream cone is an example of which type of figurative language?

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• an allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language compares without using "like" or "as"?

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3