Figurative Language Test

Developed by: Mrs. King

Question 1: What do you call it when you use any element of language (a sound, a word, a phrase, a sentence) more than once for emphasis?

	Alliteration
	Hyperbole
	Assonance
	Repetition
	Onomatopoeia

Question 2: What type of figurative language shows a repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants?

	Metaphor
	Alliteration
	Assonance
	Pun
	Personification

Question 3: In a poem, when you have repetition of sounds at the ends of words in a line, we call this...

	Rhyme
	Assonance
	Personification
	Poetry
	Imagery

Question 4: When poets use words that imitate sounds, what kind of figurative language are they using?

	Imagery
	Simile
	Assonance
	Onomatopoeia
	Alliteration

Question 5: What is the figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas?

	Personification
	Metaphor
	Simile
	Pun
	Idiom

Question 6: This is the type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

	Imagery
	Onomatopoeia
	Simile
	Pun
	Personification

Question 7: What type of figurative language is used to create word pictures in the mind of the reader?

	Imagery
	Personification
	Pun
	Idiom
	Metaphor

Question 8: This is a figure of speech in which something is compared directly to another object.

	Alliteration
	Simile
	Idiom
	Metaphor
	Pun

Question 9: What type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration of the truth?

	Simile
	Assonance
	Hyperbole
	Pun
	Idiom

Question 10: What type of figurative language is it when authors DO NOT mean for the phrase or words they use to be taken literally?

	Pun
	Onomatopoeia
	Metaphor
	Imagery
	Idiom

Question 11: What do we call the type of figurative language that is a humorous play on words?

	Hyperbole
	Imagery
	Simile
	Personification
	Pun

Question 12: "I work as a baker because I knead the dough," is an example of what?

	Onomatopoeia
	Pun
	Imagery
	Simile
	Assonance

Question 13: "The silly students strategically study sideways," is an example of what?

	Metaphor
	Alliteration
	Hyperbole
	Personification
	Assonance

Question 14: "The flowers danced around the lawn," is an example of what?

	Pun
	Personification
	Imagery
	Metaphor
	Alliteration

Question 15: "Boom! Pop! Shablam!" are all examples of what?

	Pun
	Simile
	Alliteration
	Onomatopoeia
	Assonance

Question 16: "The road was a ribbon of moonlight," is a good example of what?

	Personification
	Assonance
	Metaphor
	Hyperbole
	Simile

Question 17: "The thought hit me like a ton of bricks," is an example of what?

	Pun
	Onomatopoeia
	Alliteration
	Assonance
	Simile

Question 18: "The cool, crisp air made the morning walk so much better," is an example of what?

	Personification
	Imagery
	Assonance
	Pun
	Simile

Question 19: "Let's hit the road," is an example of what?

	Alliteration
	Idiom
	Metaphor
	Pun
	Hyperbole

Question 20: "I am so tired that I could die," is an example of what?

	Hyperbole
	Simile
	Assonance
	Pun
	Personification

Question 21: "How now, brown cow?" is an example of what?

	Hyperbole
	Assonance
	Pun
	Alliteration
	Personification

Question 22: Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light What is the rhyme scheme in this stanza?

	ABCA
	ABCB
	ABAB
	ABCD

Question 23: He was almost there, when – CRASH! SMASH! BASH! He slid down and mashed into engine hash On the rocks below . . . which just goes to show If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain’t enough! What is the rhyme scheme in this stanza?

	AACBC
	AABBC
	ABCDE
	AABCB
	AABCC

Question 24: He was almost there, when – CRASH! SMASH! BASH! He slid down and mashed into engine hash On the rocks below . . . which just goes to show If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain’t enough! What type of sound device is used in this stanza?

	Assonance
	Onomatopoeia
	Imagery
	Pun
	Alliteration

Question 25: My father lies black and hushed Beneath white hospital sheets He collapsed at work His iron left him Slow and quiet he sank Which one of these words proves that this stanza contains imagery?

	Quiet
	Sheets
	His
	Father
	Work

Question 26: The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete; Like a city child, it grows up in the street. Thrust against the metal sky, Somehow it survives and even thrives. My eyes feast upon the willow, But my heart goes to the ginkgo Which line of this stanza contains a simile?

	Line #1
	Line #2
	Line #6
	Line #3
	Line #4

Question 27: A head or tail - which does he lack? I think his forward's coming back! He lives on carrots, leeks, and hay; He starts to yawn - it takes all day Some time I think I'll live that way. What line can you find a hyperbole in?

	Line #1
	Line #2
	Line #3
	Line #5
	Line #4

Question 28: The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: What type of figurative language is shown is these two lines of a poem?

	Hyperbole
	Pun
	Onomatopoeia
	Personification
	Simile

Question 29: I just want to hold you Where we can stay forever You can be sure That it can only get better What type of rhyme can be seen in this excerpt from "No One" by Alicia Keys?

	Slant rhyme
	Internal rhyme
	Bad rhyme
	Plain-Jane rhyme
	Perfect rhyme

Question 30: "Billy bought a billion baby bottles." is an example of what type of figurative language?

	Metaphor
	Alliteration
	Pun
	Simile
	Onomatopoeia

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