Figurative Language Test Questions: Grade 8 ELA Assessment

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🍎 Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as." Example: The runner was as fast as a cheetah.
• ☀️ Metaphor: A direct comparison, stating something IS something else. Example: The world is a stage.
• 🗣️ Personification: Giving human qualities to non-human things. Example: The wind whispered through the trees.
• hyperboless Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration. Example: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
• 🎵 Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
• 🔊 Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate sounds. Example: The bee buzzed.
• 🎭 Idiom: A phrase whose meaning is different from the literal words. Example: It's raining cats and dogs.

✍️ Practice Quiz

1. Which figure of speech is used in the sentence: "The snow was a white blanket on the ground?"
   1. Simile
   2. Metaphor
   3. Personification
   4. Hyperbole
2. Identify the figure of speech in: "The flowers danced in the wind."
   1. Simile
   2. Metaphor
   3. Personification
   4. Onomatopoeia
3. What type of figurative language is present in: "He is as brave as a lion?"
   1. Metaphor
   2. Simile
   3. Hyperbole
   4. Idiom
4. Which sentence contains an example of alliteration?
   1. The sun smiled down on us.
   2. She sells seashells by the seashore.
   3. Time is a thief.
   4. The popcorn popped loudly.
5. What figure of speech is used in the sentence: "I've told you a million times?"
   1. Simile
   2. Metaphor
   3. Hyperbole
   4. Personification
6. Identify the figure of speech in: "The clock ticked loudly in the silent room?"
   1. Simile
   2. Metaphor
   3. Onomatopoeia
   4. Hyperbole
7. Which of the following is an example of an idiom?
   1. He ran like the wind.
   2. It's raining cats and dogs.
   3. The leaves whispered secrets.
   4. She is a star.