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- 1. Multiple Choice
Identify the type of figurative language being used below-
I have died everyday, waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
a thousand years
- 2. Multiple Choice
Identify the figurative language being used here.
How many times do I have to tell you
Even when you’re crying you’re beautiful too
The world is beating you down, I’m around through every move
-John Legend, "All of Me"
Personification
Repetition
Simile
Alliteration
- 3. Multiple Choice
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?
-"Firework", Katy Perry
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
- 4. Multiple Choice
I feel glorious, glorious
Got a chance to start again
I was born for this, born for this
It's who I am, how could I forget?
-Macklemore, "Glorious"
Repetition
Imagery
Rhyme
Metaphor
- 5. Multiple Choice
I like that boom boom pow
Them chickens jackin' my style
-The Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow"
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Simile
Assonance
- 6. Multiple Choice
Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
-"Hey Diddle, Diddle" nursery rhyme
Alliteration
Symbolism
Metaphor
Personification
- 7. Multiple Choice
Last night, while I lay thinking here,
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
And pranced and partied all night long
And sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I’m dumb in school?
Whatif they’ve closed the swimming pol?
Whatif I get beat up?
Whatif there’s poison in my cup?
Whatif I start to cry?
-"Whatif" by Shel Silverstein
Onomatopoeia and Personification
Personification
Metaphor
Personification and Repetition
- 8. Multiple Choice
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
-"The Sound of Silence", Simon and Garfunkel
Hyperbole
Repetition
Simile
Onomatopoeia
- 9. Multiple Choice
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel
You're as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel
-"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
Simile and personification
Metaphor and symbolism
Hyperbole and imagery
Simile and Metaphor
- 10. Multiple Choice
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Symbol
Alliteration
Simile
Hyperbole
- 11. Multiple Choice
And I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears
So done with wishing you were still here
Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow
So why can't I turn off the radio?
-Ne-Yo, "So Sick"
Alliteration
Metphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
- 12. Multiple Choice
"Your love is a symphony
All around me
Running through me
Your love is a melody
Underneath me
Running to me"
-Switchfoot, "Your Love is a Song"
Alliteration
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
- 13. Multiple Choice
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You’re paralyzed
‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about to strike.
-Michael Jackson, "Thriller"
Symbol
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
- 14. Multiple Choice
They put me in the oven to bake.
Me, a deprived and miserable cake.
Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.
Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble.
-"The Life of a Cupcake", by Shelby Greer
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
- 15. Multiple Choice
You are simply the sun in my sky
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor, alliteration
Simile
Vivid words
- 16. Multiple Choice
Death crept in like a thief and without a word Stole what was most dear to me
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Simile and personification
allusions
- 17. Multiple Choice
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Juxtaposition
apostrophe
Simile
Allusion
- 18. Multiple Choice
She is a sunshine
Metaphor
Rhyme
Repetition
Happy
- 19. Multiple Choice
My mother is a machine
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
- 20. Multiple Choice
Babies are gentle like a soft cotton touching your face
sound
Metaphor
Simile
Rhyme
- 21. Multiple Choice
As playful as a kitten
Rhyme
Simile
Allusion
Repetition
- 22. Multiple Choice
She is as innocent as an angel
Simile
Rhyme
Personification
Metaphor
- 23. Multiple Choice
Seeing, slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Repetition
- 24. Multiple ChoiceIdentify the sound device:
My wet shoes squished as I walked across the floor.alliterationassonanceconsonanceonomatopoeia - 25. Multiple ChoiceIdentify the sound device:
She sang somber songs on Saturdays.assonancealliterationrhymerepetition - 26. Multiple Choice
Which of these is a simile?
She was as beautiful as a starry night.
Her eyes were stars in a cloudy night.
- 27. Multiple Choice
Which is an example of personification?
She was as loud as a bullhorn.
The girl whispered into the darkness.
The trees danced in the wind.
He was so hungry he could eat a horse.
- 28. Multiple Choice
Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
Good morning!
What?
BANG!!!!!
NO!
- 29. Multiple Choice
"Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of....
An oxymoron
A similie
Alliteration
Personification
- 30. Multiple Choice
Which sentence uses imagery?
The girl looked at the picture of her father.
The girl was as lonely as a mouse while looking at the picture of her father.
The young, crying girl looked at the tattered picture of her father.
The girl was so sad, bruh.
- 31. Multiple Choice
What is a hyperbole?
An exaggeration
A piece of factual evidence
A comparison without using like or as
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
- 32. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these is NOT figurative language?similehyperbolepersonificationalliteration
- 33. Multiple ChoiceA figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as"similemetaphorextended metaphorsymbolism
- 34. Multiple ChoiceCompares two things that are differentextended metaphorhyperbolealliterationmetaphor
- 35. Multiple ChoiceExaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literallyextended metaphorsimilepersonificationhyperbole
- 36. Multiple ChoiceHuman qualities given to animals, objects or ideassimilepersonificationhyperbolealliteration
- 37. Multiple ChoiceUsing symbols to represent ideas or qualitiespersonificationsymbolismhyperbolealliteration
- 38. Multiple Choicerepetition of the same sounds in a group of wordsrepetitionrhymealliterationhyperbole
- 39. Multiple ChoiceRepeating the same word or phrase to make an idea clearerOnomatopoeiaRhymeAlliterationRepetition
- 40. Multiple ChoiceA word the imitates the natural sound of a thingalliterationrepetitionhyperboleonomatopoeia
- 41. Multiple ChoiceBuzzing bee is an example of what sound device?alliterationrepetitionrhymeonomatopoeia
- 42. Multiple ChoiceDove = Peace would be an example of...personificationmetaphoralliterationsymbolism
- 43. Multiple ChoiceDunkin' Donuts is an example of...repetitionalliterationsymbolismmetaphor
- 44. Multiple ChoiceThe phrase quiet as a mouse would be an example of...metaphorextended metaphorhyperbolesimile
- 45. Multiple ChoiceBy saying, "she is a walking dictionary" you would be using a...hyperbolemetaphorextended metaphorsimile
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