This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Figures Of Speech > Similes And Metaphors – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Similes And Metaphors Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I was red as a beetroot when the teacher made me speak in front of the whole class. A) I was mad. B) I was nervous. C) I was tired. D) I was embarrassed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I was embarrassed. 2. What is the meaning of the following simile? "as hungry as a bear recently awakened from hibernation" A) Someone is really hungry. B) Someone is slightly sleepy. C) Someone is extremely sleepy. D) Someone is slightly hungry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone is really hungry. 3. The ballerina was a swan, gliding across the stage. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 4. What is the meaning of the following Simile?Sylvia's new lotion made her face as smooth as a baby's skin. A) Sylvia's face was really rough. B) Sylvia's face was really smooth. C) Sylvia's face was oily. D) Sylvia's face was really dry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sylvia's face was really smooth. 5. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. Langley is a pig when he eats. A) He is sloppy/ eats too much. B) He oinks. C) He eats very little. D) He has good manners. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is sloppy/ eats too much. 7. The cast on his broken leg was a plaster shackle. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. Dallas ran like a cheetah ..... What is being compared? A) Dallas, running. B) Dallas, cheetah. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dallas, cheetah. 9. Cause baby you're a fireworkCome on show them what you're worth A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 10. My teacher is a dragon. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. He is the apple of this mother's eye A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Which of these is an example of a simile? A) Their music is the best. B) She plays guitar like breathing air. C) Her music is portal. D) His voice is an angel's song. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She plays guitar like breathing air. 13. A metaphor is a figure of speech that ..... A) Compare things without using the words "like" or "as". B) Uses a word that sounds like what it means. C) Gives a nonhuman thing human traits. D) Uses the words "like" or "as" but doesn't compare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compare things without using the words "like" or "as". 14. I just can't seem to wake up. I'm a zombie today. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. What does the metaphor '' This test was a piece of cake!" mean? A) The test was so hard!. B) The test was so simple. C) The test tasted yummy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The test was so simple. 16. Which word means:'To compare two objects using the words like or as?' A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 17. What does the metaphor mean?She was a ticking time bomb. A) She is very happy. B) She is extremely mad. C) She is a clock. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She is extremely mad. 18. I really like eggs and bacon. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neither. 19. He walked quietly down the hall. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) No comparison. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No comparison. 20. You are a hungry hippo! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) No comparison. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 21. The hug was a warm blanket. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 22. Identify each statement as a simile or metaphor.Life is a highway. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 23. Do metaphors use "like" or "as" ? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 24. Simile or metaphor?Taylor and Denis are two peas in a pod. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 25. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 26. If the author writes "the bird glides like a plane in the sky", the author is using which type of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 27. What is the meaning of the metaphor in the following sentence? Mrs. Jones has an army of children to clothe and feed, so she works two jobs. A) Mrs. Jones has a lot of children. B) Mrs. Jones has children in the military. C) Mrs. Jones is in the army to make money for her family. D) Mrs. Jones has to work a lot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mrs. Jones has a lot of children. 28. He slept like a baby. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 29. Anthony eats like a pig. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 30. A metaphor ..... A) Represents a person, animal, thing, or idea. B) Compares two unlike things using the words like or as. C) Uses as or like. D) Says that one thing is another thing and does NOT use like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Says that one thing is another thing and does NOT use like or as. 31. He is as tall as a giraffe. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 32. What is a learning objective related to similes and metaphors? A) Practice identifying similes and metaphors in texts. B) Explain the characteristics of metaphors. C) Identify metaphors. D) Recognize examples of metaphors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Practice identifying similes and metaphors in texts. 33. Since the return of her stay on the moonShe listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 34. My pencil is my key to my creativity. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 35. I am busy Like a bee A) Similes. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Similes. 36. What two things are being compared in the following sentence:After school, me and my sister are couch potatoes. A) School and the sisters. B) The sisters and potatoes. C) The couch and the sisters. D) The sisters and couch potatoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The sisters and couch potatoes. 37. A comparison between two things that share a common characteristic, does not use the words "like" or "as." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 38. "Mysterious as the dark side of the moon" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 39. On the first night home from summer camp, my pillow was a soft cloud. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 40. Love is the glue that holds us together. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 41. Bobby is a ticking time bomb who could explode at any moment. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 42. Simile or metaphor, my dad like the lion. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 43. Is this a simile or a metaphor? He slept like a log. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 44. What two things are being compared in the following metaphor? Joselyn's diary was her best friend, guarding her secrets quietly. A) "best friend" and "secrets". B) "diary" and "secrets". C) "diary" and "her best friend". D) "Joselyn" and "diary". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "diary" and "her best friend". 45. What two things are being compared? Harry is as blind as a bat without his glasses. A) Harry and blind. B) Bat and glasses. C) Harry and a bat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harry and a bat. 46. Identify the simile below: A) The tree danced in the wind. B) The cat is the devil. C) She is as tall as a tree!. D) My backpack weighs a thousand tons!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She is as tall as a tree!. 47. 'Since Mom has two jobs, she is always as busy as a bee'. This phrase means A) Mom is always doing something. B) Mom is afraid of bees. C) Mom is building a beehive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mom is always doing something. 48. The night is as cold as day. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neither. 49. The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod. What two things are being compared in this this sentence? A) Peas to pods. B) Best to friends. C) Friends to peas. D) Friends to pods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Friends to peas. 50. The dress was as colorful as a rainbow compared to my plain one. A) The dress was red. B) Jane wanted to wear pants. C) The dress had many colors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The dress had many colors. 51. Which one is a metaphor A) The car is running so fast. B) Mom is that you. C) We had a ton of work. D) He was a lion in the fight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was a lion in the fight. 52. Pick the word that best fits the simile:The children were as quiet as A) Frogs in the swamp. B) A lion. C) Dogs chasing cats. D) A mouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A mouse. 53. In the beginning of Rosa Parks' story she talks about the difference between black and white children how? A) Sports. B) Parenting. C) Schooling. D) Living. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Schooling. 54. Which is a metaphor? A) Sammy was a couch potato all summer long. B) The car was as hot as a furnace after sitting in the hot sun. C) Mr. Green was as mad as a hornet when his car was scratched. D) The moon was like a lantern last night. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sammy was a couch potato all summer long. 55. The fluorescent light was the sun during the test. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 56. Her lips were burning ashes from a fire after she ate the nachos. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 57. That cat was a bolt of lightning. A) My cat is slow. B) My cat was struck by lightning. C) My cat is really fast. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My cat is really fast. 58. Do similes use "like" or "as" ? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 59. He looks big. He can carry very heavy things. A) As strong as an ox. B) As proud as peacock. C) As weak as a baby. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) As strong as an ox. 60. What is an example of an alliteration? A) The vase flew off of the shelf. B) Powerful pandas punch parrots. C) The plant liked to fly. D) I like to eat pie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Powerful pandas punch parrots. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesSimiles And Metaphors Quiz 1Similes And Metaphors Quiz 2Similes And Metaphors Quiz 4Similes And Metaphors Quiz 5Similes And Metaphors Quiz 6Similes And Metaphors Quiz 7Similes And Metaphors Quiz 8Similes And Metaphors Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books