Figurative Language Test Practice

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figurative language
a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness.
imagery
consists of words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses
simile
a form of comparison in which one thing is compared to another unlike thing by using specific words of comparison using like, as, or resembles
simile
My sister is like a doll
simile
My brother's good as gold.
metaphor
compares two unlike things without using like, as, or resembles.
metaphor
My brother is a rat.
metaphor
My baby sister is a doll.
onomatopoeia
the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings
onomatopoeia
Buzz
onomatopoeia
Meow
onomatopoeia
Boom
onomatopoeia
Zoom
personification
the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
personification
The tree wept at the loss of its leaves.
personification
The chair groaned in protest under the weight of the Sumo Wrestler.
hyperbole
an extreme exaggeration; it is so extreme that it would never be possible.
hyperbole
I think of you a million times a day.
hyperbole
He was so tall that soup froze on the way to his stomach.
idiom
an expression that has a different meaning from the meaning of its individual words.
idiom
Get off the hook
idiom
Pot calling the kettle black
simile
I move fast like a cheetah on the African plain.
metaphor
You are an ant, while I'm the lion.
hyperbole
I walked a million miles in order to get home this afternoon.
personification
The sky misses the sun at night.
onomatopoeia
Out of reach, I pull out with a screech.
imagery
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells T.S. Eliot
simile
She's as busy as a bee.
metaphor, hyperbole
You are what you eat.
personification
My teddy bear gave me a hug.
personification
My dog sat at the back door crying for admittance.
onomatopoeia
My cereal made the sounds: snap, crackle, and pop.
hyperbole
He was so hungry, that he ate that whole cornfield for lunch, stalks and all.
idiom
She's burning the candle at both ends.
idiom
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Pun
the humorous use of a word, or of different words, sounded alike, so as to play on the many meanings.
Alliteration
the repetition of the same beginning consonant sound.
Assonance
the repetition of vowel sounds within nonrhyming words.
Allusion
a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature.
Understatement
saying less than what is true, usually for humor.
Analogy
a statement in which two word pairs share the same relationship.
Denotative meaning
the dictionary definition of a word.
Connotative meaning
the ideas and feeling associated with a word.
Irony
the difference between what we expect will happen and what really happen.
Situational Irony
contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually exists or happens. (an unexpected situation)
Dramatic Irony
when the reader knows something the character does not.
Verbal Irony
someone exaggerates or says one thing and means another.
Allegory
anything used as a symbol or emblem to add meaning in a literary work.
Symbolism
a person, place, or an activity that stands for something else.
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