15 questions
Jason was a hungry goblin wolfing down a handful of miniature candy bars.
The figure of speech in this sentence is...
a simile
a metaphor
a hyperbole
an idiom
Tattered curtains hanging in the windows waved to groups of trick-or-treaters who scurried by.
What figure of speech is present in this sentence?
a simile
a metaphor
personification
a hyperbole
Shadows from the tree's limbs reached out like an octopus and grabbed at the sidewalk.
The simile in this sentence compares
shadows to octopus arms
a tree to a shadow
a tree to an octopus
an octopus to a sidewalk
The sudden chill in the air took my breath away.
The idiom in this sentence is
sudden chill
in the air
the air took
took my breath away
One corner of our back yard is buried under a million leaves that have blown into a drift against the fence.
This sentence illustrates the use of
a simile
a metaphor
an idiom
a hyperbole
Dad is a library of information about all the natural phenomena behind seasonal changes.
The metaphor in the above sentence indicates that Dad
Talks about the weather a lot
knows a lot about the weather
has a job that involves the weather
is a teacher
Lonnie howled like a coyote when her brother scored the winning touchdown.
What two things are compared in this sentence’s simile?
the touchdown and Lonnie’s brother
a score and a coyote
the sound that Lonnie made to a coyote’s howl
Lonnie’s excitement to winning.
“October’s poplars (trees) are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” Nova Bair, American poet and musician
What is the figure of speech in this sentence?
a simile
a metaphor
personification
a hyperbole
A row of flickering jack-o-lanterns grinned at us menacingly as we made our way to the front door.
The personification in this sentence gives a human characteristic to
a door
trick-or-treaters
jack-o-lanterns
a candle
Oh, so carefully I carried my mile-high ice-cream cone across the freshly raked yard and climbed the ladder to my tree house.
The hyperbole in the above sentence is
the freshly raked yard,
mile-high ice-cream cone,
climbed the ladder,
Oh, so carefully.
The moon was a huge, orange eye looking down from
the night sky.
Which of the following changes the metaphor in this sentence to a simile?
The moon was like a huge orange eye looking down from the night sky.
The moon was a huge orange eye in the night sky.
The moon looked down from the night sky.
The moon was huge and orange.
His steely stare was as cold as an Arctic wind.
The simile in this sentence compares
steely to a stare,
a stare to an Arctic wind,
cold to the Arctic,
cold to a wind.
A twig snapped underfoot, and I jumped like a jack-in-the-box.
The above simile suggests that the person jumped
straight up
forward
backwards
to one side
The October wind howled like a wolf on the prowl.
Which of the following changes this sentence’s simile to a metaphor?
The October wind gave a wolf’s howl.
The October wind prowled like a howling wolf.
The October wind was a howling wolf on the prowl.
The wind is like a howling wolf in October.
A billion or so spiders are hiding in the webs they have constructed in the attic.
This sentence contains an example of
a simile
a hyperbole
personification
an idiom