This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 12 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. His shout was like the cry of an eagle ready for battle. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. "The wind was so cold. The air was so damp I could not move my finger as the wind continued around me" is an emample of A) Hyperboly. B) Personfication. C) Imagery. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 3. The clouds are fluffy cotton candy in the sky. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 4. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing" A) Metaphor. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 5. What is the figure of speech in the sentence 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. Life is bitter sweet. A) Apostrophe. B) Oxymoron. C) Tautology. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 7. I couldn't sleep. All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faulty faucet. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Pun. C) Irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 8. What is a word or phrase that means something other than what is actually said? A) Idiom. B) Oxymoron. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 9. 'She swims like a fish.'This is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 10. The sky misses the sun at night. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. The players pursued the bouncing ball as fast as they could carry themselves.This is an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 12. Onomatopoeia is best described through which example? A) Slowly mowing the lawn. B) The hissing fireworks on Guy Fawkes. C) Pride embraced her as she walked down the aisle. D) The curtain was damaged in the rain again. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The hissing fireworks on Guy Fawkes. 13. Our math teacher whispers while she walks A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 14. Humans need only three things to survive:sustenance, clothing, shelter. A) Hendiadys. B) Polysyndeton. C) Anaphora. D) Asyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asyndeton. 15. Which is the correct spelling of the word below. A) Comparizon. B) Komparison. C) Comparisonn. D) Comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comparison. 16. Mario wanted to rewrite his report, but he had bigger fish to fry.What does the idiom mean in this sentence? A) He was hungry. B) He had more important things to do first. C) He was lazy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He had more important things to do first. 17. '' You blithering bumpkin" is a n example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. What type of imagery is portrayed in the following sentence?The classroom was quiet. A) Hearing. B) Sight. C) Taste. D) Sound. E) Smell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hearing. 19. Charlie preferred to eat chocolate chewey cheese flavoured ice-cream. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 20. What figure of speech is described as the usage of exaggerated terms in order to emphasize or heighten the effect of something? A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 21. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. A) Apostrophe. B) Metonymy. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 22. My mother is so shy and boring. Last night at the magician show, he called her up on stage for her act. It was hilarious! A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 23. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."Many people passed away because of the endless war of nations." A) Oxymoron. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 24. Select the simile A) Your eyes are pretty. B) You have red eyes. C) Your eyes look like caves in a cliff. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Your eyes look like caves in a cliff. 25. He came, he saw, and he conquered. A) Metaphor. B) Synecdoche. C) Parallelism. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 26. So she put them on the shelf A) Tautology. B) Alliteration. C) Synecdoche. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 27. People use figurative language in their daily life. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 28. I received a text message from my mom telling me that I should go home tonight. I told my friends to leave them at 9. Then, I had known that the party died as soon as I left the part. A) METONYMY. B) HYPERBOLE. C) PERSONIFICATION. D) EUPHEMISM. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PERSONIFICATION. 29. 5) 1. I have told you to clean your room a million times, but you still have not done it! A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 30. "You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise" A) Polysyndeton. B) Anaphora. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Hendiadys. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. ← 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