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Ninth Grade (Grade 9) Figurative Language Questions

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Grade 9 Hyperbole
Which literary element is defined by extreme exaggeration for emphasis?
  1. Personification
  2. Simile
  3. Hyperbole
Grade 9 Figurative Language
A metaphor:
  1. gives human qualities to non-human things
  2. a comparison using like or as
  3. a comparison using is or was
Grade 9 Figurative Language
Pow! This is an example of hyperbole.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 9 Figurative Language
"It's raining cats and dogs!" is an example of:
  1. Imagery
  2. Exaggeration/hyperbole
  3. Metaphor
  4. alliteration
Grade 9 Figurative Language
Which of the following is an oxymoron?
  1. "Daft be the bird"
  2. "'Tis a stroke of bad luck"
  3. "Over the meadow and through the woods"
  4. "She's no spring chicken"
Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a
A more polite way of saying something.
  1. connotation
  2. denotation
  3. euphemism
Grade 9 Poetic Devices
A cinquain always has 15 lines.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 9 Figurative Language
"Nothing can stop us" is an example of:
  1. Hyperbole
  2. Metaphor
  3. Idiom
  4. Personification
Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a
We agreed to disagree is an example of which type of figurative language?
  1. hyperbole
  2. oxymoron
  3. understatement
  4. metaphor
Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.9-10.5, L.9-10.5a
Which of the following phrases is a euphemism used to describe someone who is unemployed?
  1. fell off the back of a truck
  2. sanitation worker
  3. between jobs
Grade 9 Figurative Language
Making an extreme exaggeration to make a point.
  1. hyperbole
  2. octagon
  3. prose
  4. simile
Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.R.5, RI.9-10.5

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In the final line of the speech, the speaker quotes a famous aviator and poet. This is an example of a(n):
  1. Metaphor
  2. Allusion
  3. Cliche
  4. Hyperbole
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