Figures Of Speech Quiz 11 (60 MCQs)

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1. Always trust a glue salesman. They tend to stick to their word.
2. The classroom was a zoo ..... is an example of???
3. The joker is a monster.
4. Which of the following sentences is an example of Simile?
5. I've told you to stop a thousand times.
6. She is horizontally challenged.
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)
8. He did not realize his last chance was walking out the door.
9. He is as ugly as sin.This is an example of which literary device?
10. The olympics is very important and everyone should watch it ..... this is an example of???
11. Two sunflowers moving in the yellow room. Is an example of
12. The calm lake was a mirror. Which Figure of Speech is used here?
13. The line at the canteen stretched for miles.
14. Identify the Figure of Speech from the following lines: ..... Merrily did we dropBelow the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.
15. Simile is comparing two things by using one kind of object or using in place of another to suggest the likeness between them.
16. Rhyming includes examples such as?
17. "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy."
18. She is a woman with a stone heart.
19. When the humid shadows hover
20. What figure of speech was used in this sentence:O Death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
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:
22. With a mighty leap, the tiger shattered the silence of the jungle.
23. The thunder grumbled and yelled.
24. James ran like a cheetah.
25. Life is a journey; travel it well.
26. If you are "on the fence" about an issue, it means:
27. What type of figure of speech is present in this sentence?I died laughing.
28. The school library is like a mountain of books.
29. Kelly is like a cute kitten when she smiles.
30. Did I really win the lottery, or are you just pulling my leg?
31. I could eat a horse:I am very hungry. It is a Simile.
32. We use Alliteration to use the sounds we repeat to mirror the ideas or events or feelings being described.
33. Her eyes were deep pools that he fell into and never got out of.
34. '' dogs' droppings" is an example of .....
35. You ain't nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time. *Choose the correct figure of speech
36. Which of the following represents an allusion?
37. What figure of speech was used in this sentence:Her eyes sparkled as bright as diamonds.
38. Some students are chronologically challenged when it comes to their online classes.
39. 'The sun smiled down on the earth'.This is an example of?
40. Suddenly the room filled with a deafening silence.
41. I feel the stench of failure coming on
42. The concert of IU and BTS happens only once in a blue moon.
43. Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore.
44. Select the example of hyperbole.
45. Choose the correct "Metaphor" example.
46. Talks about exaggeration to give emphasis.
47. The waves of the sea played along the shore.
48. (Betty bought butter) is an example of which figure of speech .
49. While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavement grey,
50. Pitching pennies with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a pitter-patter of rain outside the Pitti Palace. (James Thurber, Lanterns and Lances, 1961)
51. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired.
52. A Simile is a comparison involving the following pairs of words:
53. My uncle is as straight as an arrow.
54. ..... my students are good, sometimes they misbehave
55. Which is an example of a idiom?
56. The walk was a million miles long!
57. The flames of the fire licked the sky. *Choose the correct figure of speech
58. The writer mentions the absent or inanimate objects as alive and writes about them.
59. Shelly sells seashells by the sea shore.
60. Who was like moses (allusion)