Figurative Language Quiz 9 (30 MCQs)

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1. What is known as the concrete representation of an idea by using language that can evoke the five senses?
2. Onomatopoeia is .....
3. The coach was as upset as a lion when his team lost the game.
4. What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?The actor was told to "break a leg" before entering onto the stage.
5. What type of figurative language is being used? "There is no world without Verona walls ..... "
6. The trees lifted their leafy arms to pray.
7. The clouds danced across the sky.
8. This image is an example of ..... c
9. Two words that have opposite or very different meanings
10. "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."
11. Isaac is as quiet as a mouse in Mrs. Chauncey's class.
12. Identify the sentence that does NOT use HYPERBOLE.
13. Books are the keys to your imagination.
14. Pop! went the top of the soda bottle.
15. The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens.What figurative language device is used in the example above?
16. Human attributes and feelings given to non human objects or things
17. Read the idiom: "His words cut like a knife." What do you think this means?
18. The image is an example of what type of figurative language?d
19. The portion of the iceberg above the water can be labeled as ..... in this visual metaphor.a
20. This type of figurative language gives human qualities or traits to non-human things.
21. Which of these is a simile?
22. "My bedroom felt like a million degrees" is an example of alliteration.
23. Non-Human Things compared with human characteristics. Is .....
24. The flowers danced in the wind is an example of:
25. Word combinations that have a different meaning than the literalmeanings of each word.
26. "Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf"
27. Which sentence is an example of assonance?
28. This is when an object represents something else.
29. Which one is NOT an example of alliteration? (Just for fun, try saying each one 5 times fast. Can you do it?)
30. A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.