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Figurative Language Quiz


1. When poets use words that imitate sounds, what kind of figurative langue are they using? a. Alliteration b. Simile c. Onomatopoeia d. Idiom 2. What is the figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas? a. Metaphor b. Personification c. Idiom d. Simile 3. This is the type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. a. Simile b. Personification c. Imagery d. Onomatopoeia 4. This is a figure of speech in which something is compared directly to another object. a. Simile b. Idiom c. Metaphor d. Alliteration 5. What type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration of the truth? a. Simile b. Pun c. Idiom d. Hyperbole 6. What type of figurative language is it when authors DO NOT mean for the phrase or words they use to be taken literally? a. Imagery b. Metaphor c. Onomatopoeia d. Idiom 7. The silly students strategically study sideways, is an example of?

a. b. c. d.

Metaphor Personification Alliteration Hyperbole

8. Boom! Pop! Shablam! are all examples of what? a. Alliteration b. Onomatopoeia c. Simile d. Metaphor 9. Lets hit the road, is an example of what? a. Idiom b. Hyperbole c. Metaphor d. Alliteration 10. I am so tired I that I could die, is an example of? a. Hyperbole b. Personification c. Simile d. Metaphor

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