This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Always trust a glue salesman. They tend to stick to their word. A) Euphemism. B) Hyperbole. C) Pun. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 2. The classroom was a zoo ..... is an example of??? A) Simile. B) Symbolism. C) Theme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 3. The joker is a monster. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 4. Which of the following sentences is an example of Simile? A) Diego is as handsome as Daniel Padilla. B) You are an angel. C) Her heart is gold. D) Shiela is the apple of my eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diego is as handsome as Daniel Padilla. 5. I've told you to stop a thousand times. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 6. She is horizontally challenged. A) Irony. B) Pun. C) Hyperbole. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 7. But the prisoner would not answer, he only lay with wide, dark, bright, eyes, like a bound animal. (D. H. Lawrence, England, My England) A) Euphemism. B) Repetition. C) Anaphora. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 8. He did not realize his last chance was walking out the door. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 9. He is as ugly as sin.This is an example of which literary device? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. The olympics is very important and everyone should watch it ..... this is an example of??? A) Authors purpose. B) Tone. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Authors purpose. 11. Two sunflowers moving in the yellow room. Is an example of A) Irony. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 12. The calm lake was a mirror. Which Figure of Speech is used here? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. The line at the canteen stretched for miles. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 14. Identify the Figure of Speech from the following lines: ..... Merrily did we dropBelow the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top. A) Repetition, Alliteration. B) Simile, Metaphor. C) Hyperbole, Alliteration. D) Personification, Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition, Alliteration. 15. Simile is comparing two things by using one kind of object or using in place of another to suggest the likeness between them. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 16. Rhyming includes examples such as? A) Eccentric Esther. B) Rustling and whistling. C) Certain and curtain. D) Clap and hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Certain and curtain. 17. "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy." A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 18. She is a woman with a stone heart. A) Alliteration. B) Synecdoche. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 19. When the humid shadows hover A) Tautology. B) Hyperbole. C) Metonymy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 20. What figure of speech was used in this sentence:O Death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? A) Apostrophe. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 21. "Betty bought some butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought some more butter to make the bitter butter better" is an example of: A) Reparation. B) Alliteration. C) Personfication. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 22. With a mighty leap, the tiger shattered the silence of the jungle. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 23. The thunder grumbled and yelled. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 24. James ran like a cheetah. A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 25. Life is a journey; travel it well. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 26. If you are "on the fence" about an issue, it means: A) You are looking at it from all viewpoints. B) You are undecided. C) You are fair. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You are undecided. 27. What type of figure of speech is present in this sentence?I died laughing. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 28. The school library is like a mountain of books. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 29. Kelly is like a cute kitten when she smiles. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 30. Did I really win the lottery, or are you just pulling my leg? A) Making me laugh. B) Telling me the truth. C) Doing me a favor. D) Tricking me. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tricking me. 31. I could eat a horse:I am very hungry. It is a Simile. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 32. We use Alliteration to use the sounds we repeat to mirror the ideas or events or feelings being described. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 33. Her eyes were deep pools that he fell into and never got out of. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 34. '' dogs' droppings" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 35. You ain't nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time. *Choose the correct figure of speech A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 36. Which of the following represents an allusion? A) The smaller brother was like a pitbull he was so fierce. B) Her rise to the championship is a Cinderella story of triumph. C) He drove to the office every day, but on the way home he dreamed of becoming an executive chef. D) The linebacker was a freight train, barreling down the field on a collision course. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her rise to the championship is a Cinderella story of triumph. 37. What figure of speech was used in this sentence:Her eyes sparkled as bright as diamonds. A) Apostrophe. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 38. Some students are chronologically challenged when it comes to their online classes. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 39. 'The sun smiled down on the earth'.This is an example of? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 40. Suddenly the room filled with a deafening silence. A) Oxymoron. B) Synecdouche. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 41. I feel the stench of failure coming on A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 42. The concert of IU and BTS happens only once in a blue moon. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 43. Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 44. Select the example of hyperbole. A) She is as thin as a toothpick. B) She's very bony. C) She's really thin. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is as thin as a toothpick. 45. Choose the correct "Metaphor" example. A) Our teacher gave us a ton of homework. B) I have million things to do today. C) The storm was cruel giant destroying everything in it's path. D) The trees danced in the wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The storm was cruel giant destroying everything in it's path. 46. Talks about exaggeration to give emphasis. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 47. The waves of the sea played along the shore. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 48. (Betty bought butter) is an example of which figure of speech . A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Apostrophe. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 49. While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavement grey, A) Litotes. B) Tautology. C) Euphemism. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology. 50. Pitching pennies with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a pitter-patter of rain outside the Pitti Palace. (James Thurber, Lanterns and Lances, 1961) A) Assonance. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 51. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired. A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 52. A Simile is a comparison involving the following pairs of words: A) With and so. B) As and so. C) Like and when. D) As and like. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) As and like. 53. My uncle is as straight as an arrow. A) SIMILE. B) METAPHOR. C) HYPERBOLE. D) PERSONIFICATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SIMILE. 54. ..... my students are good, sometimes they misbehave A) Although. B) However. C) Whereas. D) Because. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Although. 55. Which is an example of a idiom? A) My brother is very annoying. B) My sister is a cupcake!. C) My brother is as annoying as a goose!. D) My sister is as sweet as a cupcake!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My sister is a cupcake!. 56. The walk was a million miles long! A) Hyperbole. B) Euphemism. C) Pun. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 57. The flames of the fire licked the sky. *Choose the correct figure of speech A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 58. The writer mentions the absent or inanimate objects as alive and writes about them. A) Oxymoron. B) Anaphora. C) Personification. D) Apostophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostophe. 59. Shelly sells seashells by the sea shore. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 60. Who was like moses (allusion) A) Moses. B) Martin luther king. C) Harriet. D) Romeo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harriet. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesFigures Of Speech Quiz 1Figures Of Speech Quiz 2Figures Of Speech Quiz 3Figures Of Speech Quiz 4Figures Of Speech Quiz 5Figures Of Speech Quiz 6Figures Of Speech Quiz 7Figures Of Speech Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books