Figurative Language Test Practice
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
