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- 1. Multiple Choice
A comparison between 2 unlike objects NOT using "like" or "as."
simile
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
- 2. Multiple Choice
The use of exaggeration for effect.
simile
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
alliteration
- 3. Multiple Choice
Words that START with the same sound and are used repeatedly in a sentence.
onomatopoeia
simile
alliteration
metaphor
- 4. Multiple Choice
A comparison between 2 unlike objects USING "like" or "as."
metaphor
simile
alliteration
all of the above
- 5. Multiple Choice
A technique a writer uses to produce a special effect in writing.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
literary device
- 6. Multiple Choice
Words that SOUND like the actions they refer to.
onomatopoeia
simile
literary device
alliteration
- 7. Multiple Choice
He's as strong as an ox.
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
alliteration
- 8. Multiple Choice
CRASH! went the cymbals during the song.
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
alliteration
- 9. Multiple Choice
The elephant is a large grey mountain.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
- 10. Multiple Choice
Some students sing silly songs on Saturday.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
- 11. Multiple Choice
The star was a flashlight guiding me home.
simile
onomatopoeia
alliteration
metaphor
- 12. Multiple Choice
All that buzz, buzz, buzz and pop, pop, pop!
simile
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
- 13. Multiple Choice
Her eyes were as round as oranges.
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
all of the above
- 14. Multiple Choice
She was a quiet mouse reading in the corner of the class.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
- 15. Multiple Choice
He was as quiet as a mouse reading quietly in the corner of the classroom.
metaphor
onomatopoeia
alliteration
simile
- 16. Multiple Choice
The technique of giving human qualities to an object or an idea.
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
personification
- 17. Multiple Choice
It was so hot outside my tennis shoes melted on the sidewalk.
hyperbole
personification
metaphor
onomatopoeia
- 18. Multiple Choice
The lazy cloud refused to move away from the sun.
metaphor
simile
personification
alliteration
- 19. Multiple Choice
When a writer uses very descriptive language to create PICTURES in the mind of the reader that appeals to all 5 senses.
idiom
imagery
alliteration
personification
- 20. Multiple Choice
A technique where words are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are NOT LITERALLY true.
alliteration
figurative language/idiom
onomatopoeia
preposition
- 21. Multiple Choice
You're barking up the wrong tree.
simile
metaphor
idiom
alliteration
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