Figurative Language Quiz 18 (30 MCQs)

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1. "Life is like a box of chocolates" is considered what type of figurative language?
2. Identify the figurative language in the sentence:'The wind whispered through the trees.'
3. This line from the invocation "tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end" characterizes Odysseus as all of the following EXCEPT
4. I could grow very still like an old stone on a hill
5. A phrase that has a meaning different from its literal meaning
6. "Boom" is an example of what?
7. The bag of gifts weighs a ton!
8. "Jawn" is an example of .....
9. Showing opposites
10. This image along with the short poem is a ..... d
11. Tell whether the example is a simile or metaphor.She swims like a fish.
12. A comparison between two unlike things, using words such as LIKE, AS, RESEMBLES, or THAN.
13. A poem that does not rhyme is a
14. When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work.
15. The dropped package skidded like an Olympic bobsled across the icy sidewalk.What two things are being compared in this sentence's simile?
16. Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?
17. The sunflowers nodded in the wind.
18. Chase counted his coins and crossed the street to the bank.
19. She's as tiny as a mouse.
20. This type of figurative language gives human qualities to objects or animals.
21. An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true is which type of figurative language?
22. "Bleep, bleep, bleep, " Chase's alarm clock woke him out of his sleep.
23. "A deep wood grew outside, with summer leavesof alder and black poplar, pungent cypress.Ornate birds here rested their stretched wings ..... horned owls, falcons, cormorants ..... long-tonguedbeachcombing birds, and followers of the sea."
24. Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?"I have a million papers to grade!" exclaimed the English teacher.
25. Occurs when one thing stands for or represents something else.
26. Which of the following is alliteration.
27. I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief.
28. A group of lines in a poem, separated by space is .....
29. The road was as flat as a pancake.What figurative language is being used in the sentence?
30. "Bake a big cake with butter and bring it to the birthday bash"