This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 13 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which figure of speech compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 2. He was as brave as a lion. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 3. What does the quote below mean?"The best university of all is a collection of books." A) All universities should have a large book collection. B) Reading books can provide a person with an excellent education. C) A university can be judged by the size of its book collection. D) People who want to attend a university should first read a large collection of books. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reading books can provide a person with an excellent education. 4. Nobody can beat level six. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. It crackled and growled and roared and howled. A) Anticlimax. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Climax. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 6. Watson is as fat as a pie. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 7. The popular toy flew off the shelves during the holidays. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. It was raining cats and dogs outside. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 9. When a part of something is used to refer to the whole. A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Allusion. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 10. Which of the following is not an allusion A) Well miss him so much because he was the best dog ever. B) He is such a romeo with the ladies. C) Don't be a grinch. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Well miss him so much because he was the best dog ever. 11. A type of figurative language that compares one thing to another thing by stating that something "is" another thing. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. Complete this personification:The flowers ..... in the wind A) Blew. B) Bent. C) Danced. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Danced. 13. "Her words cut deeper than a knife."Which figure of speech has been used here? A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 14. Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you're going to get. A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 15. A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Understatement. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 16. I'm so hungry I could eat a house. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Pun. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 17. My brother is a couch potato. A) METAPHOR. B) PERSONIFICATION. C) HYPERBOLE. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) METAPHOR. 18. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Speech is silver, but silence is gold." A) Antithesis. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 19. "The fat comedian is as plump as a pillow." What is compared? A) Plump and pillow. B) Comedian and pillow. C) Comedian and plump. D) Fat and plump. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comedian and pillow. 20. Which figure of speech repeats the same sound or letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 21. When a closely related term or symbol is substituted for what it represents, or some concrete term is used for a more abstract idea, the figure of speech is referred to as a ..... A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Metonymy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 22. Which among the following sentences uses an anaphora? A) Michael made mango marmalade. B) Oh darkness, please go away now. C) I have been telling you a million times about it. D) We dance, we sing, we play, and we talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We dance, we sing, we play, and we talk. 23. I walked a million miles to get here. A) METAPHOR. B) HYPERBOLE. C) ONOMATOPOEIA. D) HYPERBOLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) HYPERBOLE. 24. Actions speak louder than words. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Proverbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proverbs. 25. The camel is the ship of the desert. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 26. An example of alliteration is:"Silently, softly the swans swam on the lake." A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. I have not seen her for ages. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 28. An excellent decision she made there. A) Inversion. B) Irony. C) Apostrophe. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inversion. 29. An obvious exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Paradox. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 30. Choose the definition of:Onomatopoeia A) The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning. B) Comparison using extreme exaggeration. C) Giving an animal or object human characteristics. D) Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning. ← 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