This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 21 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 2. The trees were showing off their finest red and gold attire. This sentence illustrates the use of A) A simile. B) A hyperbole. C) Personification. D) A metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. Now kneel, noble knight, on your knobby knees.This is an example of? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 4. Adrian couldn't wait to get to lunch. He knew his mom had packed his favorite chocolate chip cookie as a special treat for making a 100 on his math test. By the time he got to the cafeteria and opened up his lunchbox, he could hear that cookie calling his name! What type of figurative language is used above? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. The carrots made a crunch as the reindeer indulged. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 6. The marshmallows were as fluffy as clouds. A) Personifcation. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 7. What is the primary purpose of using alliteration in poetry? A) To imitate sounds. B) To exaggerate for emphasis. C) To create a musical effect. D) To compare two unlike things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To create a musical effect. 8. A group of lines in a poemis called A) Stanza. B) Line-break. C) Paragraph. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 9. What does the metaphor mean in the sentence below?Mandy is a night owl. A) Mandy makes weird noises. B) Mandy stays up late. C) Mandy has a night light. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandy stays up late. 10. What uses symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense. A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Theme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 11. What is the meaning of the idiom "I can't stop smiling. I've been on cloud nine all day." ? A) You are really high. B) You feel joyful. C) Clouds are white. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You feel joyful. 12. Is giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to inanimate (not living) objects A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. 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) Oxymoron. B) Pun. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 14. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?"The girl was a kite, floating above the confusion around her." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 15. 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". 16. Which is an example of a metaphor? A) She is like a bear in the morning-grumpy and cruel. B) The flower stretched her hand out to the sun, yearning for its' rays. C) Her hair was silk. D) Buzz, Hiss, Woof. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her hair was silk. 17. Define Hyperbole A) A play on words to produce a humorous effect. B) An extreme exaggeration. C) A comparison of two dissimilar items without using like, as, or than. D) Sound words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An extreme exaggeration. 18. The crafty crocodile invited the lazy lion to his party. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 19. That pumpkin weighs a million pounds! A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 20. What is the following sentence an example of:You're toast! A) Proverb. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 21. Who let the cat out of the bag by telling the other students that we were having a party? A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Proverb or adage. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 22. Talking animals are an example of what type of figurative language? A) Personification. B) Pun. C) Cliche. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 23. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?Emily swam like a dolphin in the pool. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 24. Giving human qualities to something non-human A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metpahor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 25. 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. 26. Which literary device is used in the following line from Annabel Lee? "And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes" A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 27. The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.What figure of speech is this? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 28. Lovingly, she stroked the baby's velvety skin. A) Very noisy. B) Very thick. C) Disappeared. D) Very soft. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Very soft. 29. 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. 30. 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. 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