Worksheet Figurative Language
Identify the figurative language used in the following sentences:
1. Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. imagery
d. hyperbole
2. A blue, new moon rose high in the sky, casting a subdued hue over the school.
a. consonance
b. assonance
c. imagery
d. personification
3. A tall tree could fall hard, even with no ear near.
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. consonance
d. metaphor
4. What is an onomatopoeia?
a. word that represents a sound
b. word that represents an idea
c. it is a different word for alliteration
d. word that is hard to spell
5. Snivelling, snotty Snape slunk into the slimy dungeons.
a. onomatopoeia
b. assonance
c. consonance
d. imagery
6. Cassy happily whacked apples to Adam
a. onomatopoeia
b. assonance
c. consonance
d. imagery
7. Crash! Bang! Pow!
a. assonance
b. consonance
c. imagery
d. onomatopoeia
8. Great, gregarious Gary from Gryffindor likes grapes.
a. onomatopoeia
b. assonance
c. consonance
d. imagery
9. Alliteration looks a little like loopy consonance...because consonance is a
type of alliteration!
a. onomatopoeia
b. assonance
c. consonance
d. imagery
10.Which of these is a type of alliteration?
a. assonance
b. imagery
c. onomatopoeia
d. anaphora
11.What is alliteration?
a. The repetition of vowel or consonant sounds rat the beginning of a word.
b. The repetition of a letter sound anywhere in a line.
c. the repetition of only vowel sounds.
d. The repetition of only consonant sounds
12.What is assonance?
a. The repetition of vowel sounds in a line
b. The repetition of consonant sounds in a line
c. The repetition of any letter sounds in a line
d. The repetition of phrases.
13.What is consonance?
a. The repetition of any letter sound in a line
b. The repetition of consonant sounds in a line
c. The repetition of vowel sounds in a line
d. The repetition of words or phrases in a poem
14. Assonance is always alliteration, but alliteration is not always assonance.
a. true
b. false
15. Consonance is always alliteration, but alliteration is not always consonance.
a. true
b. false
16.This is an example of ………………….
it must have
been a foxtrot or a waltz,
something romantic but
requiring restraint,
a. caesura
b. enjambment
c. allegory
17.This is an example of ………………….
The sun hovered above
the horizon suspended between
night and day
a. caesura
b. enjambment
c. onomatopoeia
18.This is an example of ………………….
It is for you we speak, || not for ourselves;
You are abused || and by some putter-on
a. caesura
b. enjambment
c. personification
10.This is an example of ………………….
How can I keep my soul in me
so that it doesn’t touch your soul?
a. caesura
b. enjambment
c. hyperbole
20.To be, or not to be - that is the question.
a. anaphora
b. caesura
c. enjambment
H.W.
21.Jenny cooked the candy too long. When she took it out of the oven, it was
hard as a rock.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
22. as a feather.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
23. The old car woke reluctantly from its overnight sleep. Coughing and
sputtering, it finally broke into a loud roar.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
24. The trees of the forest watched sympathetically over the lost child.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
25. After Marshall climbed three flights of stairs, he had to sit down. He was a
puffing steam engine.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
26. Kyle's father was as stern as a judge when he came home after curfew.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
27. The storm was a savage beast.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
28. The storm took the house in its teeth and shook it.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
29. Wiley was very good at chess. "You have to watch him," said his father. "He's
a real fox."
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
30. Shay ran in a relay race on Saturday. When it was over, her legs felt like lead.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
31. The day after the rain, the air was clean and fresh. A soft breeze carried the
scent of lilacs.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
32. The boy's room was an amusement arcade.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
33. Louis is as strong and as tall as a redwood tree.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
34. Computers talk to one another.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
35. The train whistle screamed as the train flew through the tunnel.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
36. The kitchen is the heart of my mother's home.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
37. The idea was a fire in my head.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
38. The waxed floor was as slippery as an ice rink.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
39. Grandmother's dresser smelled like a rose garden.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
40.The truck groaned under the weight of its load.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
41. The rain was a curtain of water.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
42. The rain puddled at the door and washed anyone who entered with its
splatter.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
43. All the world's a stage.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
44. After a week without rain, the flowers begged to be watered.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
45.Silly Sally sings sixty songs on Sunday. This is an example of ………………..
A. alliteration
B. personification
C. simile
D. onomatopoeia
46.The Bumblebees were busy buzzing. Buzzing is an example of a/an…………..
A. hyperbole
B. onomatopoeia
C. metaphor
D. simile
47.She jumped so high she could touch the moon!
A. metaphor
B. personification
C. hyperbole
D. simile
48.My car died on the way to work.
Car died is an example of a/an
A. metaphor
B. hyperbole
C. onomatopoeia
D. personification
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