This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 13 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify and categorised the following statements and say what are they? Similes (1), Metaphor (2), Idioms (3)1) Rose is like a rose.2) My car grumbled. 3) My mother grounded me for 100 days. A) (1), (2), (3). B) (1), (3), (2). C) (3), (2), (1). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (1), (2), (3). 2. A comparison of two unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. He had hairy hands he had hoped he'd handle. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. Name the figurative language: "he was so strong, he could chop the tree down with one swing of an axe." A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 5. "Last of them all my ram, the leader, cameweighted by wool and me with my meditations ..... 'Nohbdy will not get out alive, I swear.Oh, had you brain and voice to tellwhere he may be now, dodging my fury!Bashed by his hand and based on this rock wallhis brains would strew the floor, and I should haverest from the outrage Nohbdy worked upon me." ' A) Verbal Irony. B) Imagery. C) Situational Irony. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational Irony. 6. I can smell pizza from a mile away. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 7. The boy was standing like a statue on the sidewalk in everyone's way. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. "Homework is a breeze, " is an example of which type of figurative language? A) Idiom. B) Similie. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 9. What is the use of words and phrases in an unusual way? Writers often use this to make their writing more colorful, powerful, and interesting. Examples include simile, metaphor, irony, and personification. A) Sensory Images. B) Figurative Language. C) Text Features. D) Rhyming Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative Language. 10. Seriously funny, alone together, clearly confused, and original copies are all examples of this type of figurative language: A) Idiom. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 11. "The mammoth Polyphemus roared in answer:'Nohbdy, Nhbdy's tricked me. Nohbdy's ruined me!" ' A) Dramatic Irony. B) Epithet. C) Metaphor. D) Verbal Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal Irony. 12. Peter laughs like a hyena is an example of metaphor. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 13. "The sun is a golden ball" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 14. What type of figurative language is a word imitating a sound? (a) A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) A. Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. Onomatopoeia. 15. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds. Select the one example of alliteration. A) I dreamed and I schemed. B) Pretty flowers blew across the pasture. C) Betty baked brownies for her best friend Billy. D) Gale and George went on a trip to California. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Betty baked brownies for her best friend Billy. 16. "I'll turn into a pumpkin if I'm not home on time." What type of figurative language is used in the sentence? A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 17. "You've got ants in your pants" is an example of A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 18. What is a play on words that has a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings, or by using similar sounding words that have different meanings. A) Pun. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 19. A phrase that has gained meaning that is different than the literal meaning of the words A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Onomatopeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 20. What is the meaning of the idiom below?Mr. Smith is feeling under the weather, so he stayed in bed and took some medicine. A) Mr. Smith is cold. B) Mr. Smith is underground. C) Mr. Smith is ill. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mr. Smith is ill. 21. What technique is being used in the following passage:Paying bills is like having your teeth pulled. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 22. Repeating the same beginning sound in two or more words is called ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 23. A comparison where one this is said to be another is a ..... A) Idioms. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 24. BAM! The door shut behind me. This is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 25. Frank fed four funny fish in the fish tank A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 26. Which sentence uses figurative language? A) The stars were diamonds in the night sky. B) The sky is blue. C) The cat's fur was soft to touch. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The stars were diamonds in the night sky. 27. BOOM! CRASH! The book fell off the shelf. This is an example of: A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 28. If Kim thinks that I'm going to let her copy my math homework, she's barking up the wrong tree. A) Simile. B) Proverb/adage. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 29. "He thought he was going to die from embarrassment" is an example of which type of figurative language? A) Idiom. B) Assonance. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 30. The curtain was waving to everyone every time the wind blew through the open window A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesFigurative Language Quiz 1Figurative Language Quiz 2Figurative Language Quiz 3Figurative Language Quiz 4Figurative Language Quiz 5Figurative Language Quiz 6Figurative Language Quiz 7Figurative Language Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books