This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 22 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. His smile is as creepy as a pumpkin on Halloween. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 2. "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. 3. 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. 4. It's when the beginning consonant sound repeats A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 5. Giving non-human objects human like qualities is called ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. 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. 7. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. Which of the following is the best example of specific diction? A) "beginning". B) "monstropolous". C) "darkness". D) "laughed". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "monstropolous". 11. 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. 12. The moon smiled at the earth. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. 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. 14. "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. 15. She sang of his love forever A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 16. Using the same consonant sound throughout the sentence is ..... A) Alliteratioin. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteratioin. 17. 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. 18. Outrageous exaggeration made to emphasize a point. A) Pun. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 19. The little road says, Go, The little house says, Stay A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 20. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?If Francis wins the lottery tonight, I'll eat my hat. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 21. What is the definition of metaphor? A) Defined as a word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing. B) A figure of speech that compares two unlike things and uses the words "like" or "as" and they are commonly used in everyday communication. C) A statement that compares two things that are not alike. D) A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice-versa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A statement that compares two things that are not alike. 22. 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. 23. Which of the following is an example of METAPHOR? A) Her stomach complained loudly after she ate the spicy enchiladas. B) Her voice is music to my ears. C) The soldier was as brave as a lion. D) Your suitcase weighs a ton!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her voice is music to my ears. 24. 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. 25. "You are a star" A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 26. Define:Hyperbole A) Comparison of two or more things not using "like" or "as". B) Comparison of two or more things using "like" , "as" , "than" , or "resembles". C) I do not know. D) A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular place or group of people. E) Exaggeration for effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Exaggeration for effect. 27. The fest was a long never-ending marathon. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 28. An exaggerated expression A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 29. What is an understatement? A) A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is. B) A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics. C) A comparison using "like" or "as" . D) An expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is. 30. BANGis an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. ← 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