Figures of speech are as fun as confetti…or…something like that. Use this passage-based quiz to assess your students’ understanding of figurative language. The passage is humorous and fun to read, and the questions will challenge students to be thorough. Students will need prior knowledge of the following: simile, metaphor, alliteration, hyperbole, personification, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, idiom, portmanteau, irony, anthropomorphism, and zoomorphism. This quiz is two pages in length and cons