Figurative Language Terminology Review Question Preview (ID: 54669)
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The world is my oyster.
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) personification
d) oxymoron
It was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) personification
d) hyperbole
The vines wove their delicate fingers together.
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) pun
d) personification
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
a) metaphor
b) personification
c) hyperbole
d) onomatopoeia
Using an owl to represent wisdom.
a) onomatopoeia
b) symbolism
c) hyperbole
d) personification
We're up, wide-eyed, and wondering while we wait for others to awaken.
a) onomatopoeia
b) assonance
c) alliteration
d) consonance
The burning wood hissed and crackled.
a) alliteration
b) symbolism
c) onomatopoeia
d) metaphor
He heard the sound of firel, like wire striking air.
a) assonance
b) consonance
c) alliteration
d) onomatopoeia
He lets the pink ball fall with a tall man.
a) assonance
b) alliteration
c) consonance
d) onomatopoeia
Poised between going on and back, pulled / Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker,
a) metaphor
b) personalification
c) simile
d) hyperbole
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary;
a) assonance
b) alliteration
c) personification
d) hyperbole
Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.
a) symbolism
b) imagery
c) hyperbole
d) personification
a figure of speech that compares two separate concepts through the use of a clear connecting word such as like or as
a) metaphor
b) simile
c) personification
d) allusion
is like a simile but without connecting words
a) personification
b) hyperbole
c) metaphor
d) allusion
when a text references another external text or a person, place or event
a) alliteration
b) allusion
c) idiom
d) pun
non-literal turns of phrase so common that most people who speak the same language know them
a) pun
b) simile
c) idiom
d) allusion
a play on words; exploits the different meanings or a word or its homonyms
a) idiom
b) allusion
c) pun
d) cliche
words sound like the thing they describe
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) onomatopoeia
d) oxymoron
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