This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 25 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ted took the toaster to Allison's on Tuesday. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 2. I am so hungry, I could eat a horse right now. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 3. What is the meaning of the following statement?The soft snow was like a blanket covering everything. A) It was a clear, sunny day. B) When it is cold I need a blanket outside. C) There was snow covering everything. D) My blanket feels like snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There was snow covering everything. 4. The raindrops played a beautiful song on the rooftop. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. Two figures of speech that involve comparisons are: A) Simile and hyperbole. B) Metaphor and oxymoron. C) Pun and paradox. D) Simile and metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile and metaphor. 6. They packed a picnic when they were going to Point Beach. A) Onomatopeia. B) Idiom. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. The keychain is hanging and scratching on the surface of my bag A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. FIGURATIVE or LITERALThe water was a rainbow A) Figurative language. B) Literal meaning. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 9. The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. What is an implied comparison without signal words; comparing one thing to another? A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?The heater yelled as it was turned on during the first winter of the year A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. "When the young Dawn with fingertips of roselit up the world, the Cyclops built a fireand milked his handsome ewes, all in due order." A) Situational irony. B) Epithet. C) Alter ego. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. Which object is this sentence describing?"The cratered ball shone in the night sky" A) Moon. B) Sun. C) Water. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moon. 14. Time marches on. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 15. What figurative language is the sentence below?She is as pretty as a flower. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. A ..... is a great exaggeration used to emphasize a point, and is used for expressive or comic effect. Example: "I have a ton of chores to do." A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 17. The snake HISSED in the bushes. A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 18. "Life is a journey" is an example of what? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. I have a million things to do today. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 20. Their family was a patchwork quilt of diversity. Each adopted child added something beautiful to the whole A) Like a quilt the family was old an ragged. B) Their family had old fashioned traditions like a patchwork quilt. C) Like a quilt stitched together of many fabrixcs, the family had children who were different living together as siblings. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Like a quilt stitched together of many fabrixcs, the family had children who were different living together as siblings. 21. Choose the sentence that contains alliteration below. A) Johnny was as mad as a hornet. B) Mom whispered like a breeze in my ear. C) The tiny ducks took a dip during the day. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tiny ducks took a dip during the day. 22. A figurative language that uses statements that contradicts itself. A) Irony. B) Oxymoron. C) Idiom. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 23. Imagery is language that creates a picture. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. "This homework is a breeze" means ..... A) The homework had a ton of questions. B) The homework was challenging. C) There aren't a lot of questions. D) The homework was very easy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The homework was very easy. 25. Mark is a cheetah, running through the wild. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 26. What is being compared in the simile below?"Her tears flowed like a river down her cheek?" A) Tears, Cheeks. B) Her, River. C) Flowed, River. D) Tears, River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tears, River. 27. My homework pile is a mile high.This sentence is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 28. Which sentence contains a pun? A) Reading on the beach can make you well red. B) The stars winked at me that night. C) Her voice was the most beautful music. D) The man zipped around the corner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reading on the beach can make you well red. 29. This sentence is an example of what: "I have a ton of homework." A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 30. Which type of figurative language is used in the following Beatles song, "Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter?" A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. ← 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