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Figurative Language Test 1
Reading Activity
Answer the Short Response Questions?
Yes No
Yes No
Figurative Language Test 1
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Incorrect!
Exaggeration for effect
Pick the term that matches the above definition.
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Alliteration
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Incorrect!
Comparison of two or more things using 'like' or 'as'
Pick the term that matches the above definition.
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
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Incorrect!
Repeating the same starting sounds of words
Pick the term that matches the above definition.
Simile
Imagery
Hyperbole
Personification
Alliteration
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Incorrect!
Comparison of two or more things NOT using 'like' or 'as'
Pick the term that matches the above definition.
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
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Incorrect!
When a words pronunciation imitates its sound
Pick the term that matches the above definition.
Imagery
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Metaphor
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Incorrect!
Giving human traits or characteristics to an object or idea
Pick the term that matches the above definition.
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Alliteration
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Incorrect!
Writing that uses the five senses to create 'pictures'
Pick the term that matches the above definition.
Simile
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Alliteration
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Incorrect!
When you, my Dear, are away, away,
How wearily goes the day.
A year drags after morning, and night
Starts another year
How wearily goes the day.
A year drags after morning, and night
Starts another year
Which technique is being used?
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
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Incorrect!
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
Which technique is being used?
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Simile
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Incorrect!
Gracefully she sat down sideways,
With a simper smile
With a simper smile
Which technique is being used?
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
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Incorrect!
Drip-- hiss-- drip-- hiss-- fall the raindrops.
Which technique is being used?
Personfication
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Simile
Metaphor
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Incorrect!
The fountain tossed its water,
Up and up, like silver marbles.
Up and up, like silver marbles.
Which technique is being used?
Metaphor
Rhyme
Hyperbole
Simile
Onomatopoeia
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Incorrect!
Falstaff sweats to death, as he walks along;
Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
Which technique is being used?
Metaphor
Simile
Rhyme
Hyperbole
Personification
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Incorrect!
Lives of great men remind us
We can make our lives sublime;
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
We can make our lives sublime;
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Which technique is being used?
Simile
Repetition
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
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Incorrect!
His sorrow goes
Like mountain snows
In waters sweet and clear,
Like mountain snows
In waters sweet and clear,
Which technique is being used?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Simile
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Incorrect!
The tear-drop trickled to his chin:
There was a meaning in her grin
There was a meaning in her grin
Which technique is being used?
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Rhyme
Personification
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Incorrect!
All night long with rush and lull
The rain kept drumming on the roof:
The rain kept drumming on the roof:
Which technique is being used?
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Rhyme
Repetition
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Incorrect!
The child with
her infinite energy
would run
her parents to
the ground
her infinite energy
would run
her parents to
the ground
Which technique is being used?
Metaphor
Simile
Rhyme
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
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Incorrect!
My love is like a red, red rose.
Which technique is being used?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Repetition
Personification
Onomatopoeia
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Incorrect!
When the stooping sky
Leans down upon the hills
Leans down upon the hills
Which technique is being used?
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
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Incorrect!
There's a patch of old snow in a corner.
Which technique is being used?
Alliteration
Imagery
Repetition
Metaphor
Simile
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Incorrect!
Which of these two poems has a continuous RHYTHM?
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'We Wear the Mask'
'Poet Among Barbarians'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which of these poems use RHYME?
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'We Wear the Mask'
'Poet Among Barbarians'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which of these poems uses MORE HYPERBOLE?
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'We Wear the Mask'
'Poet Among Barbarians'
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Incorrect!
Which of these poems uses METAPHOR?
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'We Wear the Mask'
'Poet Among Barbarians'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which of these poems uses SIMILE?
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'We Wear the Mask'
'Poet Among Barbarians'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which poem uses REPETITION?
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'We Wear the Mask'
'Poet Among Barbarians'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which poem uses MORE PERSONIFICATION?
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'We Wear the Mask'
'Poet Among Barbarians'
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In which poem does the speaker use a PLEASANT or JOYFUL TONE?
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'We Wear the Mask'
'Poet Among Barbarians'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which poem uses RHYME?
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'A Patch of Old Snow'
'Bee, I'm Expecting You!'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which poem PERSONIFIES animals?
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'A Patch of Old Snow'
'Bee, I'm Expecting You!'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
In which poem does the speaker use a PLEASANT or JOYFUL TONE?
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'A Patch of Old Snow'
'Bee, I'm Expecting You!'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which poem uses SIMILE?
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'A Patch of Old Snow'
'Bee, I'm Expecting You!'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which of these poems use HYPERBOLE?
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'A Patch of Old Snow'
'Bee, I'm Expecting You!'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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Incorrect!
Which of these poems resembles a letter?
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'A Patch of Old Snow'
'Bee, I'm Expecting You!'
Both of these poems
Neither of these poems
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