Let's Test Your Figurative Language Knowledge!

Question 1

What is descriptive language, especially in a literary work?

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Imagery

Question 2

What is a comparison using the words "like" or "as"?

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Simile

Question 3

What is the attribution of human characteristics to something that isn't human?

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Personification

Question 4

What is an extreme over-exaggeration?

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Hyperbole

Question 5

What is a comparison without using the words "like" or "as"?

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Metaphor

Question 6

What is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of two or more words?

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Alliteration

Question 7

What is a figure of speech where two contradictory items appear together?

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Oxymoron

Question 8

What is a figure of speech that does not have the literal meaning it implies?

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Idiom

Question 9

What is the use of an item or idea to represent other ideas or qualities?

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Symbolism

Question 10

What is a word associated with a sound from which it is named?

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Onomatopoeia

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