This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The trees lifted their leafy arms to pray. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. The clouds danced across the sky. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. This image is an example of ..... c A) Inference. B) Metaphor. C) C. hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. hyperbole. 4. Two words that have opposite or very different meanings A) Couplet. B) Oxymorons. C) Limerick. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymorons. 5. "You never linger so, but graze before them all, and go afar to crop sweet grass, and take your stately way leading along the streams, until at evening you run to be the first one in the fold." A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 6. Isaac is as quiet as a mouse in Mrs. Chauncey's class. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. Identify the sentence that does NOT use HYPERBOLE. A) During PE today, I ran 10, 000 miles!. B) I jumped a mile in the air when I saw that snake in my yard!. C) I cried a ten million tears during that movie!. D) I screamed when my brother jumped out from behind the door!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I screamed when my brother jumped out from behind the door!. 8. Books are the keys to your imagination. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 9. Pop! went the top of the soda bottle. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopeia. 10. The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens.What figurative language device is used in the example above? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. Human attributes and feelings given to non human objects or things A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 12. Read the idiom: "His words cut like a knife." What do you think this means? A) His words were sharp and made me bleed. B) His words were very kind. C) His words made me feel hurt. D) He was making a sandwich. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His words made me feel hurt. 13. The image is an example of what type of figurative language?d A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) D. personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D. personification. 14. The portion of the iceberg above the water can be labeled as ..... in this visual metaphor.a A) Disappointment. B) A. success. C) Discipline. D) Failure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. success. 15. This type of figurative language gives human qualities or traits to non-human things. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 16. "My bedroom felt like a million degrees" is an example of alliteration. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. Non-Human Things compared with human characteristics. Is ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 18. The flowers danced in the wind is an example of: A) Cliche. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. Word combinations that have a different meaning than the literalmeanings of each word. A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 20. "Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf" A) Allusion. B) Repetition. C) Idiom. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 21. Which sentence is an example of assonance? A) The truck was going a million miles an hour. B) The toy boat whizzed past the dock. C) The small boy grabbed Roy's toy. D) Sheila pinches pennies like Scrooge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The small boy grabbed Roy's toy. 22. This is when an object represents something else. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Symbolism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 23. Which one is NOT an example of alliteration? (Just for fun, try saying each one 5 times fast. Can you do it?) A) Black bug's blood. B) Rubber baby buggy bumpers. C) Toy boat. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Toy boat. 24. A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 25. Choose the type of figurative language used in the following sentence:We had to wait forever! A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Repetition. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 26. Choose the type of figurative language used in the following sentence:The pilot feared heights, so he hired a therapist. (a) A) A. irony. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. irony. 27. Joel and Ellie looked around only to notice they were all alone. A) Alliteration. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 28. Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence:'The wind whispered through the trees.' A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 29. I had to run as fast as a cheetah to grab the last pack of toilet paper at Kroger! A) Metapor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 30. "I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinoccho's." This is an example of an ..... A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 31. The airplane danced across the sky. A) Personification. B) Not personification. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 32. The chair stood up straight and tall. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 33. My parents gave me a tongue-lashing when they found that I lost my Nintendo Switch. A) Literal. B) Figurative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative. 34. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 35. "Piece of cake"What type of figurative language is this? A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 36. Levy's smile was as bright as the sun! A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 37. Name the figurative language: "The warm sun peeked behind the grey clouds." A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 38. "Dogy was digging deep down in the dirt" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 39. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?Her lips were red like ripe cherries. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 40. I was home in a split second. A) Proverb/adage. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 41. The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning. A) Alliteration. B) Euphemism. C) Analogy. D) Idiom. E) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Onomatopeia. 42. The falling icicle cut like a dagger through the thick layer of snow. A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 43. Mr. Kern is as cunning as a evil mastermind. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 44. My life is a dream of wonders. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 45. When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 46. The car died on the side of the road when it ran out of gas. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 47. Which of the following has an exmaple of onomatopoeia? A) I got home and opened the fridge. I was starving. I felt like I hadn't eaten in days!. B) I got home and dropped my backpack onto the floor. "Pick it up!" Mom said. C) I tried to look where I was going, but didn't see it coming. Then, bam! Right into the door. D) I bounced into class. I was looking good and feeling great. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I tried to look where I was going, but didn't see it coming. Then, bam! Right into the door. 48. An exaggeration is called a ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 49. What is the meaning of the following statement?I'm dying to see that movie. A) I can wait a little longer. B) I don't want to see the movie. C) I'm excited about seeing the movie. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I'm excited about seeing the movie. 50. Uses your 5 senses.ex:smell, sight, taste, hearing, touch A) Sensory details. B) Point of view. C) Point of view. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory details. 51. Identify the sentence below that is a METAPHOR. A) My new bike can go around the world in an hour!. B) My new bike is as fast as a race car!. C) My new bike is a jet plane because it goes so fast!. D) My new bike is the fastest bike ever in the history of time!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My new bike is a jet plane because it goes so fast!. 52. "You could have knocked me over with a feather" is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 53. Which literary device is used in the following line?"The cold night air smelled of smoke and wood as the nearby houses let of a faint glow" A) Hyperbole. B) Personifcation. C) Imagery. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 54. An idiom is ..... A) A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. B) Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical senses. C) An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole. D) A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole. 55. The pie was so tough I needed an ax to cut it. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 56. Kisses are the flowers of affection.This is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 57. An exaggeration used for comic effect.(HINT:that person is being extra) A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Sensory details. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 58. Yahri is as quick as a cat! A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 59. Name the figurative language: "After a long day of hiking, he slept like a log." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Proverb. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 60. The use of Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay", in The Outsiders is an example of: A) Verbal irony. B) Pun. C) Allusion. D) Understatement. 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