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Figurative Language Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. Red Rover, Red Rover send Robin right over. (a)
2. When two words right beside each other are opposites
3. Makes a comparison using the words "like" or "as"
4. Novels, short stories, magazine and newspaper articles can all be forms of creative writing. (TRUE or FALSE?)
5. The smoke was cotton balls billowing from the chimney.
6. She soothed her secret sorrow. Choose the best answer:What figurative language device is being used in this sentence?
7. The Sunset looked like fire.
8. "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul" is an example of .....
9. My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
10. The wind howled in the night while the lightning danced across the sky.What does this figurative language mean above?
11. It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets!
12. An analogy is a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way. Choose the one example of an analogy.
13. What does it mean if someone says "I've been waiting in line for a hundred years."
14. You are a ray of sunshine! is an example of:
15. "We had to wait forever!" is an example of .....
16. The snow is a white blanket.This is an example of:
17. A word form of a sound
18. "Her voice was music to my ears" is an example of .....
19. An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. They are overused expressions.
20. An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work, (literary, biblical, and mythological).
21. Christmas cookies are my diet's Achilles heel.
22. Non-human things are given human traits in this type of figurative language.
23. Which sentence contains an example of an ONOMATOPOEIA?
24. He is a wall when he plays linebacker.
25. My mother says that my brother and I fight like cats and dogs
26. I can't go tonight; I have a million things to do. What type of figurative language is this?
27. My alarm clock screams at me every morning at 4 A.M.
28. The CEO was really a wolf in sheep's ..... (idiom)
29. The bee buzzed in my ear and scared me.
30. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called .....
31. The abandoned well is as dry as a bone
32. You have a smile that lights up the room is an example of what type of figurative language
33. HE is a ROCKET when he races. This is an example of:
34. Name the figurative language: "she was as happy as a clam when she won the contest."
35. I shivered in the storm for 200 years.
36. I am the happiest person in the on earth is an example of what type of figurative language?
37. Santa hummed a tune in his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
38. Explain the meaning of the simile below.The road was as flat as a pancake.
39. What is the meaning of the poem below? 'Hope' is the thing with feathers-That perches in the soul-And sings the tune without the words-And never stops-at all
40. Choose the type of figurative language used in the following sentence:Charming children chat in the corner. (a)
41. Which type of figurative language uses like or as to compare two unlike things?
42. When an author compares two things using the words like or as, which type of figurative language are they using?
43. The wind whispered softly outside the open window.
44. Is the overall feeling a reader gets when reading a story. Tone creates mood.
45. What two words are being compared in the simile below?The library was as quiet as a graveyard.
46. When Romeo describes how family love has caused hatred for the opposite family, he says "O loving hate ..... O heavy lightness, serious vanity ..... feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health" (I.i.174-178). All of these are examples of what literary device?
47. She was as white as a ghost when she had the flu.
48. What is the meaning of the following statement?Hold your horses!
49. I am so hungry I could eat a cow. This figure of speech is .....
50. I'm so tired I could sleep for a year
51. What type of figurative language is this ..... "Smack!" , my flower pot hit the ground.
52. What kind of figurative language is being used?Pasqually cried like a baby after he ate too much pasta.
53. The pig squealed when it saw the dog.
54. The owl hooted in the tree. The word hooted is an example of .....
55. "Way to go, Derek Jeter, " the coach yelled to Grayson when he finished running the bases after his home run.
56. The phrase "battle Sweat" is a kenning referring to .....
57. "I had so much homework, I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home!" What type of figurative language is used here?
58. I have told you a million times not to lie!
59. What type of figurative language is shown?I have told you a million times not to do that!
60. An idiom is a group of words which mean something different from its actual meaning. Example:That is just a drop in the bucket.
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