Figurative Language Test | PDF, Schemes and Mind Maps of English Language

Download Figurative Language Test | PDF and more Schemes and Mind Maps English Language in PDF only on Docsity! Figurative Language Test 1 Directions: Choose only one answer. You are responsible for making clean marks and erasing your mistakes. Try your best. When you are done, check your answers. SECTION 1 – DEFINITIONS: Match the term with the definition. Shade in the appropriate bubble. For questions 1 through 4. Not all of the choices are used. 1. metaphor 2. alliteration 3. simile 4. hyperbole A. exaggeration for effect B. comparison of two or more things using “like” or “as” C. when one idea or sentence is stretched over two or more lines. D. repeating the same starting sounds of words. E. comparison of two or more things not using “like” or “as” For questions 5 through 8. Not all of the choices are used. 5. rhythm 6. repetition 7. rhyme 8. enjambment A. repeating the same starting sounds of words. B. when one idea or sentence is stretched over two or more lines. C. a regular pattern of stresses, like a beat. D. when a poet repeats a word or words to emphasize E. when two words share the same final sound For questions 9 through 12. Not all of the choices are used. 9. personification 10. onomatopoeia 11. imagery 12. irony A. when a words pronunciation imitates its sound B. when the outcome of a situation is the exact opposite of what was expected C. giving human traits or characteristics to an object or idea D. writing that uses the five senses to create “pictures” E. exaggeration for effect SECTION 2 – EXAMPLES Directions: Read the following examples of figurative language. Identify the poetic device that is most clearly being used. Choose the best answer. Shade in the appropriate bubble on your Scantron form. 13. When you, my Dear, are away, away, / How wearily goes the day. A year drags after morning, and night / Starts another year a. metaphor b. onomatopoeia c. irony d. simile e. hyperbole 14. Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action. a. enjambment b. metaphor c. simile d. onomatopoeia e. repetition 15. Gracefully she sat down sideways, / With a simper smile a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification e. alliteration 16. Drip—hiss—drip—hiss— fall the raindrops. a. metaphor b. hyperbole c. personification d. onomatopoeia e. simile 17. The fountain tossed its water, / Up and up, like silver marbles. a. simile b. hyperbole c. rhyme d. metaphor e. idiom 18. Falstaff sweats to death, as he walks along; / Were't not for laughing, I should pity him. a. rhyme b. personification c. simile d. metaphor e. hyperbole 19. Lives of great men remind us / We can make our lives sublime; And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time. a. simile b. metaphor c. onomatopoeia d. personification e. hyperbole 20. His sorrow goes / Like mountain snows / In waters sweet and clear, a. simile b. hyperbole c. metaphor d. onomatopoeia e. repetition 21. The tear-drop trickled to his chin: / There was a meaning in her grin a. hyperbole b. rhyme c. repetition d. simile e. metaphor 22. All night long with rush and lull / The rain kept drumming on the roof: a. simile b. hyperbole c. repetition d. personification e. rhyme 23. The child with / her infinite energy / would run / her parents to / the ground a. metaphor b. simile c. hyperbole d. personification e. repetition 24. My love is like a red, red rose. a. repetition b. personification c. onomatopoeia d. metaphor e. rhyme 25. When the stooping sky / Leans down upon the hills