In your journal, write the correct answer to each of the following questions. If you get all of the questions correct, you will earn three stars on your folder.
1. The sentence, "The spicy spaghetti was delicious," contains an example of:
A. personification
B. alliteration
C. idiom
D. hyperbole
2. "Her teeth are pearls," is an example of:
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. hyperbole
D. alliteration
3. Which of the following statements is an example of personification:
A. The house had heat.
B. Her eyes are like blue marbles.
C. The sun kissed the dew off the grass.
D. She's so tired, she could sleep for ten years.
4. Which of the following statements is an example of
hyperbole?
A. The winter was wicked.
B. His hands are baseball mitts.
C. The bird's legs are like sticks.
D. I am so tired, I could sleep for a million years.
5. Which of the following statements is an example of a simile?
A. Go jump in a lake.
B. She's as sweet as pie.
C. Sally sold seashells by the seashore.
D. The sun smiled upon us.
6. "Lend me a hand," is an example of:
A. Personification
B. Hyperbole
C. Idiom
D. Metaphor
7. The purpose of figurative language is to:
A. make something more interesting.
B. make a point.
C. make a picture in your mind..
D. All of the above
8. "The witch's eyes looked like two brown swamps,"
is an example of:
A. Personification
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Idiom
9. Which of the following statements is a metaphor?
A. Her fingers are like gnarly branches.
B. Sally is as sweet as sugar.
C. Looking for the glasses at the mall is like looking
for a needle in a haystack.
D. His desk is a jungle.
10. Which of the following statements is an example
of alliteration.
A. Lisa had dinner at Lucy's house.
B. James went to the big country jamboree.
C. Tiffani took ten times as many as she should
have.
D. Tammy has a baby racoon under her back porch.
