Figurative Language Test Practice

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onomatopoeia

Boom

onomatopoeia

Buzz

Alliteration

Come and clean the chaos in your closet.

idiom

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

hyperbole

He was so hungry, that he ate that whole cornfield for lunch, stalks and all.

hyperbole

He was so tall that soup froze on the way to his stomach.

Alliteration

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck; If a woodchuck would chuck wood?

simile

I move fast like a cheetah on the African plain.

hyperbole

I think of you a million times a day.

hyperbole

I walked a million miles in order to get home this afternoon.

onomatopoeia

Meow

metaphor

My baby sister is a doll.

metaphor

My brother is a rat.

simile

My brother's good as gold.

onomatopoeia

My cereal made the sounds: snap, crackle, and pop.

personification

My dog sat at the back door crying for admittance.

simile

My sister is like a doll

personification

My teddy bear gave me a hug.

imagery

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells T.S. Eliot

onomatopoeia

Out of reach, I pull out with a screech.

idiom

Pot calling the kettle black

simile

She's as busy as a bee.

idiom

She's burning the candle at both ends.

Allusion

Some people are calling me the Tiger Woods of miniature golf.

personification

The chair groaned in protest under the weight of the Sumo Wrestler.

personification

The sky misses the sun at night.

personification

The tree wept at the loss of its leaves.

metaphor

You are an ant, while I'm the lion.

metaphor, hyperbole

You are what you eat.

Allusion

You don't have to be William Shakespeare to write poetry.

simile

a form of comparison in which one thing is compared to another unlike thing by using specific words of comparison using like, as, or resembles

Allusion

a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature.

figurative language

a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness.

idiom

an expression that has a different meaning from the meaning of its individual words.

hyperbole

an extreme exaggeration; it is so extreme that it would never be possible.

metaphor

compares two unlike things without using like, as, or resembles.

imagery

consists of words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses

personification

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

Alliteration

the repetition of the same beginning consonant sound.

onomatopoeia

the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings


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