Figurative Language Vocab Question Preview (ID: 35821)


Identify The Correct Meaning Of Each Of The Figurative Language Terms Or Match The Term To An Example. Score A 90% Before Moving On To A Game. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Which of the following is an example of a hyperbole?
a) The runner was racing rapidly.
b) The runner was racing like a wild animal.
c) The runner was racing 100 miles an hour.
d) The runner was a wild animal.

Which of the following is an example of a personification?
a) The building was staring at me as I walked by.
b) The building was like a mountain among the trees.
c) The building was a mountain among the trees.
d) The building was ten miles high.

Which of the following is an example of a simile?
a) The car was cautiously cruising down the curved road.
b) The car was as cautious as a hunter stalking its prey.
c) The car was a cautious hunter stalking its prey.
d) The car was traveling three feet an hour.

exaggeration used for effect
a) oxymoron
b) hyperbole
c) alliteration
d) onomatopoeia

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
a) The sun was like a bright round orange
b) The sun was a bright round orange.
c) The sun was sizzling silently in the sky.
d) The sun was so close I could touch it.

two opposite ideas or meanings are joined together to create an effect
a) oxymoron
b) hyperbole
c) alliteration
d) onomatopoeia

repeated sound at the beginning of words
a) oxymoron
b) hyperbole
c) alliteration
d) onomatopoeia

This gives nonhuman or inanimate things people characteristics and feelings.
a) simile
b) idiom
c) metaphor
d) personification

When words resemble the real sound
a) oxymoron
b) hyperbole
c) alliteration
d) onomatopoeia

An expression when taken litereally means something different than it does figuratively.
a) simile
b) idiom
c) metaphor
d) personification

Comparison between two things that does not use the word like or as.
a) simile
b) idiom
c) metaphor
d) personification

Comparison between two things and uses the word like or as.
a) simile
b) idiom
c) metaphor
d) personification

Which of the following is an example of a oxymoron?
a) The pack was as cold as ice.
b) The icy hot pack was just what I needed.
c) The ice pack worth its weight in gold.
d) The pack was an ice berg.

Which of the following is an example of a onomatopoeia?
a) The man slurped the drink.
b) The man was so thirsty he drank five gallons of water.
c) The man was a suction hose at the water fountain.
d) The mysterious man meandered through the mountain roads.

Which of the following is an example of an idiom
a) Jason ate potato chips on the couch.
b) Jason was like a chain saw snoring on the couch.
c) Jason was a chain saw snoring on the couch.
d) Jason is a couch potato.

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