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ELA 30-1 Figurative Language Quiz
ELA 30-1 Figurative Language Quiz
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High School English Language Arts Figurative Language
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She stood in silence but the words tickled the back of her throat.
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
2
Two or more lines of poetry unified by meter, rhyme, thought, or all of these.
couplet
quatrain
stanza
paragraph
3
Cacophony is
harsh sounds
high pitch sounds
soft sounds
low sounds
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John is gone.
Hyperbole
Consonance
Alliteration
Assonance
5
Drop dead gorgeous
Paradox
Euphemism
Oxymoron
Idiom
6
Billowing black clouds consumed the sky.
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Assonance
Rhyme
7
When we expect something to happen and it doesn't
life
dramatic irony
situational irony
verbal irony
8
Less is more.
Hyperbole
Paradox
Assonance
Metaphor
9
He was frozen in embarrassment.
Irony
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
10
She clicked her red heels together.
Personification
Assonance
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
11
Her personality was explosive.
Assonance
Irony
Hyperbole
Metaphor
12
Fantasy football for extreme football fans
Irony
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
13
Lips as red as blood.
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
Assonance
14
Repetition of initial sounds in a series of words
consonance
onomatopoeia
assonance
alliteration
15
The branches scratched the window.
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Synecdoche
16
They fought like a cat and dog.
Irony
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
17
It's raining cats and dogs.
Oxymoron
Euphemism
Idiom
Irony
18
He rose like a Phoenix from the ashes.
Allusion
Illusion
Simile
Personification
19
The train screeched to a sudden halt.
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
20
She had the strength of Hercules.
Allusion
Oxymoron
Anaphora
Metaphor
21
If he took another bite he would burst!
Metaphor
Assonance
Simile
Hyperbole
22
He'll wheel the best deal.
Assonance
Personification
Irony
Alliteration
23
His mind was a vast ocean.
Simile
Metaphor
Pathetic Fallacy
Personification
24
A figure of speech describing one thing by referring to another closely related to it.
metonymy
metaphor
oxymoron
synedoche
25
The wind whirled west of town.
Metaphor
Personification
Assonance
Alliteration
26
The snowflakes kissed her cheek.
Synecdoche
Allusion
Personification
Assonance
27
A form of a metaphor describing something by reference to one small but important part of it
extended metaphor
synecdoche
metonymy
oxymoron
28
Toe is to foot as finger is to hand.
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Analogy
Paradox
29
The waves licked the sandy shore line.
Irony
Personification
Simile
Alliteration
30
The infant let out a blood-curdling scream.
Metaphor
Personification
Irony
Hyperbole
31
The rain drops glistened like diamonds.
Irony
Metaphor
Assonance
Simile
32
They were in hot water with the principal.
Idiom
Synecdoche
Simile
Irony
33
Youth is wasted on the young.
Analogy
Paradox
Allusion
Metaphor
34
The full range of suggestions, associations, etc. of meaning beyond the dictionary meaning
annotation
denotation
aggravation
connotation
