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Grade 9 Figurative Language
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"

Which literary element is being used?
  1. Metaphor
  2. Personification
  3. Connotation
  4. Simile
Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a
"You are positively wrong."

This is an example of which figurative language device?
  1. hyperbole
  2. metaphor
  3. simile
  4. oxymoron
Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a
Which of the following is an oxymoron?
  1. Big sip
  2. Biggest big
  3. Funny fun
  4. Sad song
Grade 9 Figurative Language
Which of the following is an oxymoron?
  1. bright night
  2. quiet morning
  3. open door
  4. closed window
Grade 9 Figurative Language
Which figure of speech is used in the following line?

All day the hireling engines charged the trees.
  1. simile
  2. metaphor
  3. paradox
  4. personification
Grade 9 Figurative Language
"Give it a shot" is an example of what kind of figurative language?
  1. Hyperbole
  2. Metaphor
  3. Idiom
  4. Pun
Grade 9 Figurative Language
As a sound device in poetry, consonance may be defined as which of the following?
  1. the repetition of a vowel sound in the words that are close together
  2. the pattern of rhyme at the end of lines
  3. the use of a word whose sound imitates the meaning
  4. the repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables
Grade 9 Figurative Language
What is a comparison using "like" or "as" called?
  1. irony
  2. simile
  3. pun
  4. metaphor
Grade 9 Figurative Language
Allegory means:
  1. alleged crimes
  2. the deeper meaning of a symbol
  3. a type of costume at the party
  4. a metaphor
Grade 9 Figurative Language
"The rock flew across the wide river" is an example of...
  1. personification
  2. rhyme
  3. imagery
Grade 9 Metaphor
Which is an example of a metaphor?
  1. The handshake felt like warm laundry.
  2. My mom is going to kill me.
  3. She hung her head like a dying flower.
  4. Life is a roller coaster.
Grade 9 Figurative Language
"They stretched in never-ending line"

Which literary device is this an example of?
  1. Simile
  2. Personification
  3. Imagery
  4. Hyperbole
Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a
What is the meaning of the euphemism LOSE YOUR LUNCH?
  1. vomit
  2. can't find your food
  3. get lost on the way to the cafeteria
  4. act like a crazy person
Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a
John continued through the hot snow to get to his parent's house is an example of:
  1. Onomatopoeia
  2. Hyperbole
  3. Personification
  4. Oxymoron
Grade 9 Figurative Language
Which of the following is an oxymoron?
  1. I need a cold ice cream cone.
  2. Let's go get a quick lunch.
  3. How could you increase the problem?
  4. That's a fine mess you've gotten yourself into.
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