Figurative Language

1. "Cruel kindness" is an example of which type of figurative

language?
a. oxymoron
b. hyperbole
c. idiom
d. personification

2. "Absolutely unsure" is an example of which figurative

language?
a. idiom
b. oxymoron
c. hyperbole
d. personification

3. "A fine mess" is an example of which type of figurative

language?
a. oxymoron
b. idiom
c. simile
d. metaphor

4. "Smart as a whip" is an example of what type of figurative

language?
a. personification
b. simile
c. metaphor
d. hyperbole

5. Poetry is a type of writing that uses figurative language to

a. create images and ideas.
b. appeal to the five senses.
c. appeal to emotions.
d. all of the above
 6. "Hiss" is an example of what type of figurative language?
a. hyperbole
b. onomatopoeia
c. metaphor
d. simile

7. "Smart as a whip" is an example of what type of figurative language?

a. personification
b. simile
c. metaphor
d. onomatopoeia

8. Which of the following sentences contains imagery?

a. I told Charlie I had a lot of homework to do.
b. "It was nice to see you again," Jacob said.
c. I opened my eyes and looked around.
d. I could hear the waves crashing against the rocks somewhere nearby.

9. Which of the following sentences does NOT contain an idiom?

a. A dog ran after a rabbit.
b. Those cards are a dime a dozen.
c. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
d. It's raining cats and dogs out there.

10. When two or more words have the same ending sound such as "flight" and "sight," what is it
called?
a. alliteration
b. rhyme
c. rhythm
d. assonance
11. Poetry is a type of writing that uses figurative language to
a. create images and ideas.
b. appeal to the five senses.
c. appeal to emotions.
d. all of the above
12. 'Once by the Pacific' by Robert Frost

The shattered water made a misty din.

Great waves looked over others coming in.

The figurative language in line 2 of this poem...

a. makes the waves seem human
b. compares the waves to one another
c. exaggerates the size of the waves
d. makes the reader hear the waves
 13. Which of the following lines contains a simile?
a. Or crust and sugar over--
b. Maybe it just sags
c. Or does it explode?
d. Does it stink like rotten meat?
14. He said, Madam
It's not up to me.
I'm just the agent,
Don't you see?

I said, Naturally
You pass the buck
If it's money you want
you're out of luck.

This poem contains examples of what figurative language?

a. idiom and metaphor
b. rhyme and simile
c. metaphor and rhyme
d. rhyme and idiom
15. Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence below.
Snow had wrapped a white blanket over the city.
a. Alliteration
b. Simile
c. Personification
d. Metaphor
16. "Whenever the trees are crying aloud" is an example of:
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Alliteration
d. Personification
17. Betty Botter bought some butter,
but, she said, the butter's bitter;
if I put it in my batter
it will make my batter bitter,
but a bit of better butter
will make my batter better.

The above poem is an example of...

a. personification
b. alliteration
c. simile
d. imagery
18. I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

In the poem, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" the line "dancing in the breeze" is an example
of...
a. personification
b. alliteration
c. simile
d. metaphor
19. Which of the following sound devices appear in these lines from "Analysis of Baseball"?

Ball hits
bat, or it
hits mitt.
a. alliteration only
b. alliteration and assonance
c. onomatopoeia only
d. onomatopoeia and consonance

20. The Sky Is Low, The Clouds Are Mean

The sky is low, the clouds are mean,

A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day

How someone treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.

- by Emily Dickinson

Give TWO examples of personification from Emily Dickinson's poem, "The Sky is Low, The
Clouds are Mean."

21. Lines of poetry are arranged into groups called:

a. similes
b. stanzas
c. settings
d. stories
22. Poetry doesn't have to rhyme.
a. True
b. False