This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 9 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is known as the concrete representation of an idea by using language that can evoke the five senses? A) Specific experience. B) Figures of speech. C) Diction. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 2. Onomatopoeia is ..... A) A word that sounds like the sound it represents. B) Bananas. C) Exaggeration for effect. D) Repetition of consonant sounds at the start of adjacent words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A word that sounds like the sound it represents. 3. The coach was as upset as a lion when his team lost the game. A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 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. A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 5. What type of figurative language is being used? "There is no world without Verona walls ..... " A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 6. The trees lifted their leafy arms to pray. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 7. The clouds danced across the sky. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. This image is an example of ..... c A) Metaphor. B) C. hyperbole. C) Inference. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) C. hyperbole. 9. Two words that have opposite or very different meanings A) Limerick. B) Couplet. C) Oxymorons. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymorons. 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." A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 11. 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. 12. Identify the sentence that does NOT use HYPERBOLE. A) I cried a ten million tears during that movie!. B) I screamed when my brother jumped out from behind the door!. C) During PE today, I ran 10, 000 miles!. D) I jumped a mile in the air when I saw that snake in my yard!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I screamed when my brother jumped out from behind the door!. 13. Books are the keys to your imagination. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 14. Pop! went the top of the soda bottle. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopeia. 15. The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens.What figurative language device is used in the example above? A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. Human attributes and feelings given to non human objects or things A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 17. 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. 18. The image is an example of what type of figurative language?d A) Hyperbole. B) D. personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D. personification. 19. The portion of the iceberg above the water can be labeled as ..... in this visual metaphor.a A) Disappointment. B) Failure. C) A. success. D) Discipline. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. success. 20. This type of figurative language gives human qualities or traits to non-human things. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 21. Which of these is a simile? A) He went after the ball like a tiger pouncing on prey. B) He was fast and pounced on the ball. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He went after the ball like a tiger pouncing on prey. 22. "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. 23. Non-Human Things compared with human characteristics. Is ..... A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 24. The flowers danced in the wind is an example of: A) Cliche. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 25. Word combinations that have a different meaning than the literalmeanings of each word. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 26. "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. 27. 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. 28. This is when an object represents something else. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 29. 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. 30. 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. ← 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