1.

He was as brave as a lion.

A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

2.
"All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and
their entrances;" William Shakespear: As you like it
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

3.
"Death lays its icy hands on kings."
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

4.
"My love is like a red rose..."
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification
 5.
"Death! where is thy sting? O Grave! Where is thy victory?"
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

6.
He is a lion.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

7.
The wind wrapped its icy fingers around my body.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

8.
The boat was tossed like a cork on the waves.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification
 9.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" Sonnet
18: William Shakespeare
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

10.
Blind justice was not on his side.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

1.
Jenny had cooked the candy too long. When she was ready to cut it in squares, it was a rock.
2.
Sue Ann worked hard on her report. After she gave it before the class, she felt light as a feather.
3.
The old car awoke reluctantly from its night's sleep. Coughing and spluttering, it finally broke
into a loud roar.
4.
The trees of the forest sympathetically watched over the lost child.
5.
After Marchall climbed three flights of stairs, he had to sit down. He was a puffing steam engine.
6.
Barbara's cake for the contest turned out practically perfect - it responed to touch like a sponge.
7.
The storm was a savage beast. It took the house in its teeth and shook it.
8.
Wiley was very good at chess. "You have to watch him" his father said. "He's a real fox."
9.
The day after the rain, the air was clean and fresh. A soft little breeze carried the scent of lilacs.
10.
The boy's room was an amusement arcade.
11.
Louis is as strong and tall as a redwood.
12.
Computers talk to one another.
13.
The train whistle screamed as the train flew through the tunnel.
14.
The kitchen is the heart of my mother's house.
15.
The idea was a fire in my head.
16.
The waxed floor was as slippery as an ice rink.
17.
Grandmother's dresser drawers smelled like a rose garden.
18.
The truck groaned under the strain of its load.
19.
The rain formed a curtain of water on the window.
20.
All the world's a stage.
21.
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
22.
After a week without rain, the flowers begged to be watered.
23.
The ball was thrown like a bullet.
24.
The moon peeked out from behind the clouds.
25.
The wide rock ledge was a safe harbor for the weary mountain climbers.
26.
Fall leaves were strewn like confetti on the path.
27.
The green vines wound their arms around the rusty gate.
28.
Fran's new car turned out to be a lemon.
1.
She is the apple of my eye
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor
C.
Hyperbole

2.
Father Anthony cried a river of tears.
A.
Simile

B.
Personification

C.
Hyperbole

3.
My mother is like a star in the sky.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

4.
The trees are dancing together with the wind.
A.
Personification

B.
Simile

C.
Metaphor

5.
You are the sunshine of my life.
A.
Metaphor

B.
Personification
C.
Hyperbole

1.
My teacher has eyes in the back of her head.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia

2.
Her hair was like gravy, running brown off her head and clumping up on her shoulders.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia

3.
There was a loud "THUMP" coming from upstairs. "THUMP,THUMP, THUMP!"
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia

4.
The phone rang loudly. "RING, RING, RING!"
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia

5.
Her cheeks are big red apples from the cold.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia
 6.
Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what your going to get.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia

7.
The leaves danced in the wind.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia

8.
It's time to hit the road!
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia

9.
The sun kissed my cold face.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia

10.
He's as cute as a button.
A.
Simile

B.
Metaphor

C.
Personification

D.
Idiom

E.
Onomatopoeia

1.
The chug-a, chug-a, chug-a of the train echoed down the hill, while a cloud of smoke rose up to
the western sky.
A.
Simile

B.
Euphemism

C.
Onomatopoeia

2.
Substituting the word "euthanasia" for "mercy killing" or "killing the terminaly ill".
A.
Euphemism

B.
Hyperbole

C.
Apostrophe

3.
I had so much homework last night that i need to pick up trucks to carry all my books home!
A.
Synechdoche

B.
Onomatopoeia

C.
Hyperbole

4.
"The earth luaghs beneath my heavy feet, At the blasphmy in my old jangly walk."
A.
Simile

B.
Metonomy

C.
Personification

5.
Pitching pennies with the Pittsburg Pirates in a pitter-patter of rain outside the Pitti Palace.
A.
Alliteration

B.
Onomatopoeia

C.
Oxymoron

6.
Hyperbole is a kind figure of speech which use of exaggeration terms to purpose of emphasis or
heightened effect.
A.
True

B.
False

7.
Methapor is a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an effermative is
expressed by negating its opposite.
A.
True

B.
False

8.
Synechdoche is a figure of speech that stated comparison between to fundamental dissimilar
things that have certainly common.
A.
True

B.
False

9.
A statement that appears to contradict itself is a Paradox.
A.
True

B.
False
10.
The repetition of an initial consonant sound is a Anophora.
A.
True

B.
False

11.
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
12.
Breaking of discoarse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality and an
inanimate object.
13.
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
14.
A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appears side by side.
15.
A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem like less
important or serious than it is.
16.
Defferentiate Alliteration to Anaphora and Epiphora and Epistrophe.

1 UNANSWERED A figure of speech is

A) a familiar expression or saying.

B) a nonliteral way of saying something.

C) what the author literally means.

D) something only writers use.

2 UNANSWERED Figures of speech mean exactly what the words say.

A) True
 B) False

3 UNANSWERED A figure of speech has to be interpreted by the reader or

listener.

A) True

B) False

4 UNANSWERED Two figures of speech that involve comparisons are

A) simile and metonymy.

B) metonymy and metaphor.

C) personification and hyperbole.

D) simile and metaphor.

5 UNANSWERED The figure of speech in which the author makes an obvious

exaggeration for emphasis or to create some other specific effect is

A) simile.

B) metaphor.

C) hyperbole.

D) metonymy.
6 UNANSWERED The words like and as typically appear in a

A) simile.

B) metaphor.

C) personification.

D) metonymy.

7 UNANSWERED When a closely related term or symbol is substituted for

what it represents, or some concrete term is used for a more abstract idea, the figure of speech
is referred to as a

A) metaphor.

B) hyperbole.

C) personification.

D) metonymy.

8 UNANSWERED Another name for figure of speech is figurative language.

A) True

B) False

9 UNANSWERED There are

 A) 5 figures of speech.

B) 250 figures of speech.

C) more than 250 figures of speech.

D) more than 500 figures of speech.

10 UNANSWERED Knowing the type of figure of speech is more important

than understanding the meaning of the figure of speech.

A) True

B) False

11 UNANSWERED Two types of irony are

A) alliteration and apostrophe.

B) assonance and litotes.

C) verbal and situational.

D) onomatopoeia and synecdoche.

12 UNANSWERED When words are literal, they mean exactly what they say.

A) True
 B) False

13 UNANSWERED What is the figure of speech in which nonhuman or

nonliving things are spoken about as if they were human?

A) metaphor

B) hyperbole

C) personification

D) metonymy

14 UNANSWERED In irony, words mean the opposite of what they appear to

be saying or an occurrence is contrary to what is expected or intended.

A) True

B) False

15 UNANSWERED The first step in interpreting a simile or metaphor is to

A) determine the two things that are being compared.

B) decide the important way in which two things might be alike.

C) reason out the author's intended meaning.

D) none of the above

Directions: Each item below contains figurative language or is a figure of speech. Read each
one and decide on the correct interpretation of it.

1 "Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted
—David Bly
A) It is important to strive for success.
B) You should plant crops where you plan to harvest them.
C) It is wrong to work hard for success.
D) To be successful, you must first work hard.

2 "Opportunity makes thieves." —European saying

A) People steal at every opportunity.
B) People who might not otherwise steal may do so if circumstances make it easy to
take something.
C) Some people never have opportunity to become a thief.
D) Don't leave valuable possessions lying around.

3 "'Tis with our judgments as our watches: none go just alike, yet each believes his own."
A) We all have different opinions, and each of us thinks ours is correct.
B) We need to watch the judgments we make.
C) We should not believe other people's opinions.
D) We should not make judgments about other people because over time, people
can change.

4 "Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language
humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live."
—Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy (1932- )
A) It is just as wrong to destroy a species as it is to tear pages out of a book,
especially a book written in another language.
B) Humans should not tear pages out of any book that is written in a language they
do not understand.
C) When humans destroy a species, they and future generations lose forever the
opportunity to learn something about the very earth on which they live.
D) Humans should record in a book the species they destroy.

5 "Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." —Christopher Morley, writer (1890-
1957)
 A) It is helpful in life to be able to speak a second language, even though speakers
will undoubtedly mispronounce some words.
B) Everyone will mispronounce the words of a foreign language.
C) No one knows how to live life perfectly, and every person makes mistakes in
living their lives.
D) Because everyone mispronounces some words of a foreign language, there is no
reason to try to learn another language.

6 "True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." —Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-
1994)
A) How we conduct our lives, and not what we say we believe, reflects our true
religious beliefs.
B) Each person must find a religion that is truly appropriate for him or her.
C) To be truly religious, we should learn the creeds that our religion professes.
D) It is important to learn a religious creed and to act accordingly.

7 "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
—Vernon Law, Pirates pitcher
A) It's a helpful experience to have a hard teacher.
B) Experienced teachers give the lesson first and then the test.
C) Everyone has the experience of making mistakes both in school and in life.
D) Experience can be a difficult way to learn because you learn from making
mistakes.

8 "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon
you have a dozen." —John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
A) It's a good idea to have at least a dozen rabbits.
B) Once ideas start coming to you, you have lots of more of them.
C) Unless you have an idea of how to handle rabbits, you will end up with lots of
them.
D) No one knows how many ideas or rabbits they will end up with after getting the
first one.

9 "The best university of all is a collection of books." —Thomas Carlysle

A) All universities should have a large book collection.
B) Reading books can provide a person with an excellent education.
C) A university can be judged by the size of its book collection.
D) People who want to attend a university should first read a large collection of
books
1.Which genre include stories with characters who try to solve a crime or unexplained event?
A.
Folk Tale

B.
Mystery

C.
Historical Fiction

D.
Realistic Fiction

2.This genre serves as an information source such as an atlas or directory.

A.
Information

B.
Biography

C.
Newspaper

D.
Reference

3.This is an anonymous, timeless, and place-less story that was originally told rather than
written.
A.
Play

B.
Fantasy

C.
Folk Tale

D.
Reference
4.This genre includes narration demonstrating a useful truth, especially in which animals speak
as humans.
A.
Fantasy

B.
Play

C.
Folk Tale

D.
Fable

5._____ includes words arranged in metrical pattern, often using rhymed verse in an
imaginative style.
A.
Science Fiction

B.
Prose

C.
Poetry

D.
Mystery

6.What is a literary genre? 7.List 4 genres and its sub-genre. 8.The movie AVATAR fits into
which literary genre?
A.
Mythology

B.
Science Fiction

C.
Fantasy

D.
Realistic Fiction

9.Give an example of the literary genre Play. 10.Make up a literary genre and explain how did
you come up with your decision
. Why is epic poetry a sub-genre of poetry?
Epic poetry shares all the broad characteristics of poetry, but then has specific traits as well.
Epic poetry does not have all the characteristics of other poetry.
Epic poetry is not a sub-genre of poetry.
Epic poetry is longer than most poems

Q. Stories with magic, monsters, superpowers, or other things that do not exist in reality.
answer choices
Fantasy
Realistic Fiction
Informational Text
Science Fiction
Question 2 60 seconds
Q. Stories with aliens, advanced technology, or futuristic weapons.
answer choices
Fantasy
Realistic Fiction
Science Fiction
Informational Text
Question 3 60 seconds
Q. Fictional stories based on or around important people or events from the past.
answer choices
Realistic Fiction
Historical Fiction
Fantasy
Science Fiction
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Question 4 60 seconds
Q. Stories that could actually happen but didn’t, and are made up.
answer choices
Science Fiction
Poetry
Historical Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Question 5 60 seconds
Q. Stories that are passed down from one group to another in history.
answer choices
Fantasy
Mystery
Traditional Literature
Science Fiction
Question 6 60 seconds
Q. A story that involves a detective or some kind of puzzle/scenario that needs to be solved.
answer choices
Mystery
Fantasy
Traditional Literature
Historical Fiction
Question 7 60 seconds
Q. A type of writing written to encourage feeling and create a thoughtful response. This type of
writing often uses rhyme and rhythm to convey a message.
answer choices
Traditional Literature
Fantasy
Poetry
Mystery
Question 8 60 seconds
Q. A type of text that provides facts about many different topics. They are meant to “inform” the
reader.
answer choices
Fantasy
Persuasive Writing
Biography
Informational Text
Question 9 30 seconds
Q. Informational Writing
answer choices
tried to influence the reader
writing about someone else's life
explains something
Based on a real person or place
Question 10 30 seconds
Q. This type of fiction may include elements that take place in outer space
answer choices
fantasy
science fiction
traditional literature
historical fiction
Question 11 30 seconds
Q. An example of fantasy
answer choices
Harry Potter
The Giver
Number the Stars
The Watsons go to Birmingham
Question 12 30 seconds
Q. Informational text about true events or topics.
answer choices
Science Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Nonfiction
Fable
Question 13 30 seconds
Q. Star Wars is an example of what genre?
answer choices
historical fiction
realistic fiction
science fiction
informational