This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Jill could not shake the feeling that Jack made a deliberate mistake to ensure that their project took more time. What figurative language device is being used in the sentence above? A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 2. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?"The girl was a kite, floating above the confusion around her." A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 3. Which of the following correctly identifies a symbol? A) "Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song". B) "Ah'm hard of understanding at times". C) "Mrs. Sumpkins snorted violently and sucked her teeth". D) "It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road They sat in judgment". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road They sat in judgment". 4. Define Hyperbole A) A play on words to produce a humorous effect. B) A comparison of two dissimilar items without using like, as, or than. C) Sound words. D) An extreme exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An extreme exaggeration. 5. The crafty crocodile invited the lazy lion to his party. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 6. That pumpkin weighs a million pounds! A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 7. What is the following sentence an example of:You're toast! A) Simile. B) Proverb. C) Pun. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 8. Who let the cat out of the bag by telling the other students that we were having a party? A) Personification. B) Proverb or adage. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 9. Talking animals are an example of what type of figurative language? A) Cliche. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?Emily swam like a dolphin in the pool. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 11. Giving human qualities to something non-human A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metpahor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 12. What type of figurative language is shown?Her eyes were as blue as the ocean. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. Which literary device is used in the following line from Annabel Lee? "And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes" A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.What figure of speech is this? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 15. Lovingly, she stroked the baby's velvety skin. A) Very thick. B) Very noisy. C) Very soft. D) Disappeared. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Very soft. 16. Bob Ross expresses many feelings through his paintings. A) Literal. B) Figurative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal. 17. Which sentence below uses alliteration? A) I wonder if Dana is sleeping. B) Paul planted petunias in the garden. C) Cheese is one of my favorite things to eat. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paul planted petunias in the garden. 18. His smile is as creepy as a pumpkin on Halloween. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 19. "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of what kind of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 20. Gaslights bloomed on the new streetslike flowers, and lit with a "Pop!" at night.This has examples of: A) Simile and onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor and simile. C) Personification and simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile and onomatopoeia. 21. It's when the beginning consonant sound repeats A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 22. Giving non-human objects human like qualities is called ..... A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 23. Which type of figurative language is below?The soccer player was a bolt of lightning zooming across the field. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 24. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 25. What does it really mean: "She was pulling my leg." A) She grabbed my leg and tugged on it. B) She hurt my leg. C) She was joking with me. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was joking with me. 26. Words that are used within a poem repeatedly to express a certain point A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Stanza. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 27. Which of the following is the best example of specific diction? A) "laughed". B) "beginning". C) "darkness". D) "monstropolous". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "monstropolous". 28. An expression that means something other than the usual meaning of the words A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 29. The moon smiled at the earth. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 30. He was a car speeding through the streets is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 31. "In a smithy one sees a white-hot axehead or an adzeplunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam ..... the way they make soft iron hale and hard ..... just so that eyeball hissed around the spike." A) Imagery. B) Epic Simile. C) Allusion. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic Simile. 32. She sang of his love forever A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 33. Using the same consonant sound throughout the sentence is ..... A) Alliteratioin. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteratioin. 34. What type of figurative language is being used in the quote?"Nick's nephew needed new notebooks." A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 35. Outrageous exaggeration made to emphasize a point. A) Simile. B) Pun. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 36. The little road says, Go, The little house says, Stay A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 37. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?If Francis wins the lottery tonight, I'll eat my hat. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 38. The typical teenage boy's room is a disaster area. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Proverb/adage. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 39. The flute sang out beautifully during the concert. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 40. "You are a star" A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 41. The fest was a long never-ending marathon. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 42. An exaggerated expression A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 43. What is an understatement? A) A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is. B) A comparison using "like" or "as" . C) An expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning. D) A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is. 44. BANGis an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 45. 'She sang of his love forever.' is an example of: A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 46. "strategist Odysseus""Pallas Athena" A) Irony. B) Imagery. C) Alter Ego. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alter Ego. 47. The pillow was like a marshmallow, puffy and soft A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 48. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse! What is this an example of? A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Allieration. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 49. My sister is as slow as molasses in the mornings.The sentence is an example of A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Methphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 50. The quote from the popular Owl City song, "You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep, " is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 51. The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 52. The rain came down in full cold buckets. A) Onomatopeia. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 53. He's a penny pincher. A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopeia. C) Idiom. D) Personficiation. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 54. Children's books are often written from what literary POV? A) Firstperson. B) Secondperson. C) Thirdperson. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondperson. 55. My sister is as slow as molasses in the mornings. (a) A) A. simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. simile. 56. The steak sizzled on the grill. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 57. This type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 58. There were echoes of her own childhood in the novel she wrote about a poor family who emigrated to the United States. A) Very soft. B) Complex trap. C) Very sad. D) Reminders. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reminders. 59. I distinctly remember forgetting that. It's an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 60. In the expression "Her words cut deeper than a knife, " what figurative language is being used? A) Personification. B) Simile. 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