Question

White sheep, white sheep,
On a blue hill,
When the wind stops,
You all stand still.

When the wind blows,
You walk away slow.
White sheep, white sheep,
Where do you go?

Which type of figurative language is used throughout this poem?
Hyperbole is used to exaggerate the clouds' movements.
Metaphor is used to compare the clouds to white sheep.
Onomatopoeia is used to give the reader an idea of what the sheep sound like.
Simile is used to compare the white sheep to clouds.
Question 5
(Multiple Choice Worth 2 Points)
(03.04R MC)


Which type of figurative language is shown through the bolded words in this excerpt from Robert Browning's poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"?

"Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, little hands clapping, and little tongues chattering ..."
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Question 6
(Multiple Choice Worth 2 Points)
(03.04R LC)


Figurative language in which something is exaggerated for emphasis is
idiom
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
personification
Question 7
(Multiple Choice Worth 2 Points)
(03.04R MC)


Read the following poem:

The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Which type of figurative language is used in the bold line?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Question 8
(Multiple Choice Worth 2 Points)
(03.04R MC)


Read the following poem:

The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Which type of figurative language is used in the bolded lines?
Alliteration
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Question 9
(Multiple Choice Worth 2 Points)
(03.04R LC)


A phrase that means something different figuratively than literally, like "piece of cake" or "change of heart," is an example of
hyperbole
idiom
onomatopoeia
simile
Question 10
(Multiple Choice Worth 2 Points)
(03.04R MC)


Read the following poem:

The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Which type of figurative language is used in the bold line?
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Simile
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Answer 1

Here are the correct answers:

1 (White sheep poem): Metaphor — Metaphor is used to compare the clouds to white sheep.
5 (Pied Piper excerpt): Onomatopoeia — words like pattering, clattering, clapping, chattering imitate sounds.
6 (exaggeration for emphasis): Hyperbole.
7 (The Eagle — “He clasps the crag with crooked hands;”): Personification — giving the eagle/rock human hands/actions.
8 (The Eagle — bolded line with repeated consonant sounds): Alliteration.
9 (phrase meaning different figuratively than literally): Idiom.
10 (The Eagle — “And like a thunderbolt he falls.”): Simile.