Figurative Language Test Questions – Flashcards
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A comparison of two or more things using "like" or "as."
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A comparison that includes the words like or as.
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Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow.
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Jimmy moves like a snail.
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Last night I slept like a log.
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He ran as fast as lightning.
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His feet are as big as boats.
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Describes a person, place, thing, feeling, idea, or action by comparing it to something else. It does NOT have the words "like" or "as."
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A comparison that does not include the words like or as.
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A blanket of snow covered the streets.
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Time is money.
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Whatever floats your boat.
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The snow is a white blanket.
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The classroom was a refrigerator.
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Her hair is silk.
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Sound effects, or words that are spelled exactly the way they sound.
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Onomatopoeia
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A word whose sound suggests its meaning.
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Onomatopoeia
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BASHH
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BOOM
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GRRR
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Bam, paw, crash, boom, wham, zoom, puff, pop, bitt, slurp, crunch, e.t.c.
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Putting together two or more words that begin with the same sound.
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Alliteration
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
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Rosie the Riveter.
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Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse
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Extreme exaggeration; anything that is beyond normal, or believable. When you use an extravagant, unbelievable, exaggeration to express yourself/something.
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Hyperbole
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Extreme exaggeration use to make a point.
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He jumped so high that he touched the sky.
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My book bag weighs a ton!
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He was thinner than a toothpick.
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My suitcase weighs six tons!
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Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects; giving human qualities to non-human things.
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Personification
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The act of giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects.
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The lightning danced across the sky.
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The stairs let out a loud groan as we walked on them.
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Diamonds are a girls' best friend.
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Dogs are a man's best friend.
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The house stared at me with looming eyes.
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Expression with less strength than expected. (The opposite of hyperbole.)
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Understatement
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I'll be there in one second.
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This won't hurt a bit.
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A saying that isn't meant to be taken literally. It doesn't "mean" what it says.
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An expression that can't be taken literary. It has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.
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Don't be a stick in the mud!
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You're the apple of my eye.
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I have a trick up my sleeve.
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Break a leg.
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I'm all ears.
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Money doesn't grow on trees.
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A form of "word play" in which words have a double meaning.
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Pun
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I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger and then it hit me.
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I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put it down.
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A figurative saying in which a bit of wisdom is given.
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Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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The early bird catches the worm.
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When two words are put together that contradict each other. "Opposites."
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Oxymoron
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Jumbo Shrimp
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Pretty Ugly
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Freezer Burn
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When a writer attempts to describe something so that it appeals to our sense. (taste, touch, smell, hearing, see)
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He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee.
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The girl ran her hands on the soft satin fabric.
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occurs when one thing stands for or represents something else.
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Symbolism
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*Words function exactly as defined.
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Literally
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*The car is blue.
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*He caught the football.
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*Figure out what it means.
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*I've got your back.
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*You're a doll.
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My love is like a red rose.
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The rain danced on the roof.
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Oink!
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Tim tickled Tom's toes.
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The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads.
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You just added fuel to the fire.
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Meow
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Money doesn't grow on trees.
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Her beauty shines like the sun.
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Careless cars cutting corners cause confusion.
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ZIP
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The trees shivered in the wind.
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Life is a curvy slide that is constantly turning.
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This classroom is a sauna.
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I feel as sick as a dog.
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Buttered bacon biscuits.
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It is the North Pole outside.
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Who spilled the beans?
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Small Potatoes
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A Frog in my throat
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Ears must be burning
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Long in the tooth
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Ride Shotgun
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Hit the spot
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Time is flying
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Call of the Dogs
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Put in his two cents' worth
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Monkey Business
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One in a million
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Put on the dog
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Crack a book
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Nose in the air
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Two shakes of a lamb's tail
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Hot off the presses
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Bat an eyelid
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Not a dry eye in the house
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Hold your horses
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Take five
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Blue blood
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Pass with flying colors
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