Figurative Language - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

Only the moon watched as the girl ran away from home in the middle of the night.

Simile

Personification

Hyperbole

Metaphor

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Before he was allowed to go to the movies, he had to wash a million dishes by hand

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

Simile

3.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

The eyes are a window to the soul; when she looked at him from across the room, she knew then that she was in love.

Simile

Personification

Hyperbole

Metaphor

4.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

Our brains are like computers: capable of massive amounts of knowledge, but too often distracted by cat videos.

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

Simile

5.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

What is a comparison made between things, which are essentially not alike?

Simile

Metaphor

Symbolism

Idiom

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

“Jamie runs as fast as the wind.”

Cliche

Simile

Alliteration

Personification

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

“My eyes widened at the sight of the mile-high sundaes we were having for dessert.”

Hyperbole

Personification

Simile

Metaphor

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

When something that is not human is given human-like qualities, this is known as what?

Alliteration

Hyperbole

Personification

Symbolism

9.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

An image of the American flag represents patriotism. This is an example of what?

Onomatopoeia

Idiom

Symbolism

Alliteration

10.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

Onomatopoeia is...

When the name of an action imitates the sound associated with it

When the name of a person is not spelled how it sounds

When the name of an action is the same name as the person who wrote the definition

When the name of an action imitates the look associated with it

11.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

If somebody says "We need to address the elephant in the room," they're using which figurative language device?

Idiom

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

12.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

Becky borrowed Ben's book

Simile

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

13.

Multiple Choice

1 min

1 pt

Which figurative language device is NOT used here:

The wind blowing is a billion people screaming.

Simile

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Personification

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

His belly shook like a bowl full of jelly.

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

Hyperbole

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The librarian is a beast if you mess up her books.

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

My teacher is so old, he edited the Bible for mistakes!

Hyperbole

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

17.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The words were music to her ears.

Simile

Personification

Metaphor

Hyperbole

18.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

A chair smiles when people sit and read on it, but it cries when people fart on it.

Simile

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Personification

19.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

She doesn't like pizza, but says spaghetti is the best food in the entire world

simile

metaphor

hyperbole

idiom

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