Is there anything else that you know about figurative language terms/devices that WAS NOT on the quiz? Please answer before submitting your quiz (free point if you answer!)
Two or more words that start with the same letter or the same sound. The words must be close to each other in the sentence.
Personification
Metaphor
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Compares two different things using the key words 'like' or 'as.'
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Simile
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
An exaggerated statement often used for emphasis.
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Words that imitate sounds.
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Compares two different things without using 'like' or 'as.'
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Descriptive writing that appeals to the five senses (such as taste, touch, smell, etc.)
Personification
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Imagery
Hyperbole
Giving human qualities/traits to things that are not human.
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Allusion
Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry.
Internal Rhyme
End Rhyme
Two opposite words that are placed side by side in the same sentence.
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Alliteration
A reference to another work of literature, a movie, a song, a person, an event, etc. that appears within another text (could be in a book, a movie, a tv show, a song, etc.)
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Allusion
Hyperbole
Imagery
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
End Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
The dictionary definition of a word -
Denotation
Connotation
The feeling/emotion that we get from a word -
Connotation
Denotation
The leaves fell gracefully to the ground, twirling like ballerinas.
Metaphor
Simile
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
The turkey was a magnet, drawing in all members of the family with its delicious scent.
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Hyperbole
The wishbone made a large crack when the siblings broke it apart.
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor
Whenever the family got together on special occasions like this, time flew by so quickly.
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Personification
During the San Francisco Turkey Bowl, the football screamed through the air hitting a spectator in the stands!
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
When my brother broke his aunt’s crystal vase, he was as nervous as a turkey on Thanksgiving.
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
The farmer snuck up behind the turkey, and after hearing the turkey’s gobble, he jumped on his prey.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
The meal my mother prepared for Thanksgiving was awfully delicious!
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
The ocean’s water splished and splashed against the Mayflower as it voyaged to the New World.
Simile
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
My brother didn’t know where everyone was supposed to sit for Thanksgiving dinner, so he put the place settings in random order.
Personification
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Alliteration
My mother’s pumpkin pie is a slice of heaven.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Oxymoron
When Susie took the last piece of peanut butter pie, I could have cried for a million years.
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Oxymoron
Dad said, "I'm so hungry, I could eat a million turkeys."
Personification
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Uncle Jackson was a skyscrapper standing next to grandma.
Metaphor
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Personification
The kitchen table shook under the weight of the feast that lay upon it.
Personification
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Simile
Food circulated around the table in a furious flurry of flying bowls and plates.
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Everyone pounced _____________________ for a serving of Grandmother's mashed potatoes.
Choose the simile that completes the sentence.
at the same time
like cats on a mouse
as fast as possible
in a bunch
What type of rhyme is found in the example below?
“Am I Wrong” by Nico and Vinz
Am I wrong for thinking out the box from where I stay?
Am I wrong for saying that I’ll choose another way?
End Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Approximate/Slant Rhyme
None of the above
What type of rhyme is found in the following example?
“This is How we Roll” by Florida Georgia Line
The mixtape’s got a little Hank, a little Drake
A little something bumping, thump, thumping on the wheel ride