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English
6th
grade
Al Capone Does My Shirts Part 1: Figurative Language
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What type of figurative language is being used:
"There's water all around, black and shiny like tar" (4)?
simile
metaphor
personification
- 2. Multiple Choice
What type of figurative language is being used:
"My father tells me I've grown so much, he's going to put my supper into pickle jars and sell it under name Incredible Growth Formula" (5).
hyperbole
personification
simile
- 3. Multiple Choice
Mark all the ones that are similes:
"it smells like the inside of an old lunch bag"
"the manicotti tastes like big fat spaghetti with pizza inside"
"the buoy clangs in the distance"
"my face is as hot as a furnace"
- 4. Multiple Choice
Mark all the ones that are metaphors:
"Get out of here you big baboon!"
"Well if it isn't our very own Babe Ruth"
"She snorts"
"When the warden says jump...you ask how high!"
- 5. Multiple Choice
"Miss Bimp booms"
This has what two types of figurative language
simile and metaphor
simile and alliteration
onomatopoeia and alliteration
onomatopoeia and idiom
- 6. Multiple Choice
What type of figurative language is being used:
"A full moon cuts a white path"
personification
simile
alliteration
hyperbole
- 7. Multiple Choice
Mark all the following idioms:
I'm having a devil of a time
going on a wild goose chase
Piper has clearly gone too far
Piper, the little slime
- 8. Multiple Choice
What type of figurative language is the following?
"When you forget to say please, bread and water for an entire week...forget thank you and it's even worse."
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
- 9. Multiple Choice
What type of figurative language is the following?
"Books are overdue, they lock you up. They have a special cell for it. Overdue library book cell."
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is a simile?
a comparison using "like" or "as"
a comparison, saying something IS something else.
giving human qualities to something that is not a human.
An over exaggeration that truly isn't believable.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is personification?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
and over exaggeration that truly isn't believable
A comparison saying that something IS something else.
- 12. Multiple Choice
2. Comparing two unlike things saying one thing IS the other?
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
- 13. Multiple Choice
The repetition of two or more sounds close together is called what?
For example in "flipping a flat yellow hat on her finger"
simile
imagery
personification
alliteration
- 14. Multiple Choice
An extreme exaggeration!
For example: "Al Capone's fingerprints are on that sleeve! The sweat of his brow dropped on this pocket!"
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
simile
- 15. Multiple Choice
This type of figurative language is a common expression that most large groups would understand. For example: It's raining cats and dogs"
idiom
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
- 16. Multiple Choice
What type of figurative language is being used:
"Will my blouse come back bloody?"
alliteration
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
- 17. Multiple Choice
What type of figurative language is being used:
"An icy wind bites through my sweater"
personification
simile
alliteration
idiom
- 18. Multiple Choice
What type of figurative language is being used:
"Outside, the gulls are arguing"
personification
alliteration
idiom
hyperbole
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