Grammar
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
100

Person, place, or thing

A. verb

B. adjective

c. noun

C. noun

100
True or False


Figurative language is meant to be taken exactly as it is stated.

False

100
When and where a story takes place is the 


a. plot

b. theme

c. setting

c. setting

200

smart, kind, shy are examples of

A. verbs

B. adjectives

C. nouns

B. adjectives

200

Comparing two unlike things using like or as 

a. hyperbole

b. simile

c. metaphor


b. simile


200

The events that make up a story 

a. plot

b. theme

c. setting

a. plot

300

RMHS, Burger King, and Mr. Colvin are examples of what kind of nouns?

A. proper

C. common

A. proper

300

Life is a roller coaster is an example of a....

a. hyperbole

b. simile

c. metaphor

c. metaphor

300

The overall message (life lesson) of a story

a. plot

b. symbolism

c. theme

c. theme

400

Run, sleep, and read are examples of

A. verbs

B. Adjectives

C. nouns

A. verbs

400

Giving human like qualities to something nonhuman is 

a. personification

b. inference

c. symbolism 

a. personification

400

The problem or struggle in the story

a. conflict

b. resolution

c. exposition 

a. conflict

500

The subject of a sentence must be a ______ or a pronoun. 

A. verb

B. adjective

C. noun

C. noun

500

I am so hungry I could eat a horse is an example of

a. hyperbole

b. simile

c. metaphor

a. hyperbole

500

The part of the plot where the conflicts builds

a. exposition

b. rising action

c. falling action

b. rising action