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Figurative Language Quiz 16 (25 MCQs)

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1. What type of figurative language is a word imitating a sound? (a)
2. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds. Select the one example of alliteration.
3. "I'll turn into a pumpkin if I'm not home on time." What type of figurative language is used in the sentence?
4. "You've got ants in your pants" is an example of
5. What is a play on words that has a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings, or by using similar sounding words that have different meanings.
6. A phrase that has gained meaning that is different than the literal meaning of the words
7. What is the meaning of the idiom below?Mr. Smith is feeling under the weather, so he stayed in bed and took some medicine.
8. What technique is being used in the following passage:Paying bills is like having your teeth pulled.
9. Repeating the same beginning sound in two or more words is called .....
10. A comparison where one this is said to be another is a .....
11. BAM! The door shut behind me. This is an example of .....
12. Frank fed four funny fish in the fish tank
13. Which sentence uses figurative language?
14. BOOM! CRASH! The book fell off the shelf. This is an example of:
15. If Kim thinks that I'm going to let her copy my math homework, she's barking up the wrong tree.
16. "He thought he was going to die from embarrassment" is an example of which type of figurative language?
17. The curtain was waving to everyone every time the wind blew through the open window
18. She [Janie] was " ..... beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her."
19. What is being personified? "The orange wall screamed at her when she walked by."
20. "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." This is an example of .....
21. Name the figurative language: "actions speak louder than words."
22. The song lyric, "I would walk 500 miles, And I would walk 500 more, Just to be the man who walked 1, 000 miles to fall down at your door, " is BEST described as an example of .....
23. A comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'
24. Clues that give hints as to what is going to happen next in the story. (Hint:predicting the future)
25. My homework pile is a mile high. (a)
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