Figurative Language Review Test Questions – Flashcards
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alliteration
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use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
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onomatopoeia
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the use of words that imitate sounds
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simile
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comparison using "like" or "as"
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free verse
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poetry that does not rhyme
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rhyme scheme
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the pattern of end rhymes in a poem
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internal rhyme
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A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
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sensory details
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words and phrases that create imagery by using the 5 senses
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theme
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Message or statement about life in the story
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mood
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the overall emotion created by a work of literature
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idiom
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An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally
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metaphor
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Name the Figurative Language: America is a melting pot of diverse languages, races, and cultures
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idiom
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Name the Figurative Language: Babylon wan an ancient city. The people who lived there were ahead of their time.
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personification
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Name the Figurative Language: Egyptians wore beautiful jewelry. They wore beautiful headpieces. Each headpiece had a personality of its own.
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metaphor
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Name the Figurative Language: The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
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idiom
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Name the Figurative Language: In the early 1900s, immigrants had to pass through Ellis Island before they could live in America. Ellis Island held the key to their futures.
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simile
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Name the Figurative Language: In Ancient Rome, public baths were very popular. They were like health clubs or spas.
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hyperbole
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Name the Figurative Language: Mickey Mouse is the best cartoon character in the world.
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personification
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Name the Figurative Language: In China, people celebrate the new year on the first day of the new moon. They hope the new year will be kind to them
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simile
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Name the Figurative Language: Levi Strauss invented the first pair of blue jeans during the Gold Rush. He wanted the jeans to hold up like steel..
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Name the Figurative Language: Jim's boss exclaimed, "Time is money." Immediatley Jim put away his iPad and got back to work.
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personification
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Name the Figurative Language: Rutherford B. Hayes was the first US President to have a phone. He thought of the phone as a faithful friend.
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idiom
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Name the Figurative Language: Lots of people had gold on their minds in the mid-1800s. It all started when someone found gold in California.
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hyperbole
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Name the Figurative Language: Mt. Rushmore is a sculpture carved into the side of a mountain. The sculpture is larger than life.
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simile
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Name the Figurative Language: In the 1800s, many people came to America. Immigrants were packed like sardines on boats so they could live in a free country.
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hyperbole
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Name the Figurative Language: Practically everyone in the world celebrates Mother's Day. In the England, Mother's Day has been celebrated as early as the 1600s
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metaphor
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Name the Figurative Language: Pilgrim boys were busy bees. The boys gathered firewood, miled goats, picked berries and plants, and planted crops
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idiom
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Name the Figurative Language: People like Phil Mickelson need to keep their cool during difficult golf matches
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personification
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Name the Figurative Language: On a starry winter night in Portugal Where the ocean kissed the southern shore
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imagery/sensory language
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Name the Figurative Language: The rain came down in long knitting needles
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imagery/sensory language
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Name the Figurative Language Then he would dash, so hurriedly that his necktie flew back over his shoulder, down through our yard, past the grapevines hung with Japanese-beetle traps, to the yellow brick building
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imagery/sensory language
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Name the Figurative Language I lay still and took another minute to smell: I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of silage, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall
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imagery/sensory language
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Name the Figurative Language He has about as much chance to win as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat's ear with a red-hot needle
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onomatopoeia
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Name the Figurative Language On my first morning on the farm, I was awoken suddenly by the cock-a-doodle-do of the resident rooster.
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onomatopoeia
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Name the Figurative Language My teeth were chattering as we waited in the freezing cold for the bus to arrive
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onomatopoeia
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Name the Figurative Language The robbers' car screeched around the corner as they attempted to escape the police.
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onomatopoeia
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Name the FIgurative Language Zip! My dress was fastened and I was finally ready for the wedding.
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alliteration
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Name the Figurative Language We felt dreary and dismal in the darkness of the night.
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alliteration
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Name the Figurative Language Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
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alliteration
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Name the FIgurative Language The friendly fox fights fervently and ferociously
