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This document is a figurative language test that contains 15 multiple choice questions about different types of figurative language devices including metaphor, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, and simile. Students are asked to identify examples of each device type and fill in the correct definition for each term. The test examines a student's understanding of common figurative language devices found in literature.

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Figurative Language Post-Test2

This document is a figurative language test that contains 15 multiple choice questions about different types of figurative language devices including metaphor, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, and simile. Students are asked to identify examples of each device type and fill in the correct definition for each term. The test examines a student's understanding of common figurative language devices found in literature.

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Figurative Language Test

Name: _________________________________ Date: ________________

DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blank with the correct definition.


Metaphor Hyperbole Onomatopoeia Figurative Language
Alliteration Personification Simile
1. When a word mimics a sound that an object or action makes, it’s called
__________________.
2. __________________ is a comparison between two things not using like or
as.
3. A comparison using like or as is called a/an __________________.
4. __________________ is when there is repetition of sounds at the beginning
of words.
5. Language used to exaggerate or stretch the truth about something is called
__________________.
6. __________________ is when you give human characteristics to something
that is not human.
7. Language that is not meant to be taken literally is called
__________________.

DIRECTIONS: Pick the type of figurative language that matches the example
given.
8. The leaves dance in the breeze.
A. Simile
B. Hyperbole
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Personification

9. Tim was quite curious to see what his cousins were up to.
A. Alliteration
B. Simile
C. Metaphor
D. Hyperbole
10.The nervous student was sweating bullets.
A. Simile
B. Hyperbole
C. Metaphor
D. Onomatopoeia

11.The sun is a furnace for the earth.


A. Onomatopoeia
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole

12.My grandpa thinks computers are as complicated as women.


A. Personification
B. Simile
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Metaphor

13.The rain drip dropped against the window pane.


A. Onomatopoeia
B. Simile
C. Metaphor
D. Simile

14.Dan’s stomach is a bottomless pit.


A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Personification

15. I have a million things to today.


A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Alliteration
D. Hyperbole

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