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Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 5. Ito ay pagpapalabis sa normal upang bigyan ng kaigtingan ang nais ipahayag. A) Pagmamalabis o Hyperbole. B) Pagtutulad o Simile. C) Pagwawangis o Metapora. D) Pagsasatao o Personipikasyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pagmamalabis o Hyperbole. 6. Choose the conjunction that express reason A) While. B) So that. C) Because. D) Although. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because. 7. That beauty was a thing fashioned by the traders in words. Tired I shut the book and snuffed the candle. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Repetition. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. The kids were wild monkeys today. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 9. The dog barked at the visitor. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 10. The green giraffe laughs at the path.What figure of speech is there in the sentence above? A) None. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 11. Compare two things that are different from each other with the use of as and like. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 12. She was the rose in a garden filled with thorns. What figure of speech was used here? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. She was so scared that she turned as white as a ghost. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. "WHAMM" is an onomantopoeia A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Choose the definition of:Figurative language A) Language not intended to be understood literally. B) Type of figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things by using the words like or as. C) Comparison using extreme exaggeration. D) Uses the five senses to create a mental picture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language not intended to be understood literally. 16. Our eyes and facial expressions can communicate every subtle ..... of emotion. A) Similarity. B) Nuance. C) Euphemism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nuance. 17. The children's feet squished in the mud. A) Alliteration. B) Neither. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 18. Simile is a direct comparison between two unlike things. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. My backpack weighs a ton is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 20. Walking into an empty theater and asking, "it's too crowded" . A) Euphemism. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 21. 'Sheep should sleep in a shed.' Which tool is used? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 22. Is this an Example of Metaphor? "I love getting into bed, I feel as snug as a bug in a rug" A) YES. B) NO. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) YES. 23. The players pursued the bouncing ball as fast as they could carry themselves.$_{This is an example of:}$ A) Alliteration. B) Neither. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 24. Politicians are powerful but some of them are incompetent. That is why justice is blind and, at times, deaf. A) PERSONIFICATION. B) IRONY. C) SIMILE. D) EUPHEMISM. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PERSONIFICATION. 25. Crooks conspire with the kind king. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 26. What does the quote below mean?"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." A) It's a helpful experience to have a hard teacher. B) Experienced teachers give the lesson first and then the test. C) Everyone has the experience of making mistakes both in school and in life. D) Experience can be a difficult way to learn because you learn from making mistakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Experience can be a difficult way to learn because you learn from making mistakes. 27. Simile is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 28. Identify the figure of speech in these lines:But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero; A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Oxymonon (two opposite words are used together). D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymonon (two opposite words are used together). 29. What does the idiom "burning the candle at both ends" mean? A) You are preparing for an emergency. B) You are doing too much. C) You have a great need for a lot of light. D) You are wasting wax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You are doing too much. 30. "Oh, you foolish car, you never work when I need you to, " Bert sighed. A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Apostrophe. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 31. You are very pretty like Cinderella. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 32. Distinguish whether the following sentence is literal or figurative: "The computer screen was as bright as the sun." A) Literal. B) Figurative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative. 33. She has a million friends.(Mark the figure of speech) A) Hyperbale. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbol. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 34. 'He's running faster than the wind.'This is an example of ..... A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 35. What is the figure of speech used in the line "He had to work for ages to get to this position." ? A) Irony. B) Pun. C) Hyperbole. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 36. "And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." (Identify the figure of speech) A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 37. An allusion is a figure of speech that refers to a well known story or event refers to something without mentioning it directly (ANA) A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 38. King Richard was as brave as a lion. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 39. Mike Kennedy's coffee was as cold as the snow that was falling outside A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 40. The COVID-19 virus is a silent killer. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 41. A figure of speech has to be interpreted by the reader or listener. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. Which figure of speech is the author using?"I've told you to stop a million times" A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 43. The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in the series of words is called A) Allusion. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 44. 'Silence your cellphone so that it does not beep during the movie.' This is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 45. What type of figure of speech is present in this sentence?The cat meowed at the dog from the window. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 46. Thou still unravished bride of quiteness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 47. How many figures of speech do we have? A) More than 500 figures of speech. B) More than 250 figures of speech. C) 250 figures of speech. D) 5 figures of speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More than 250 figures of speech. 48. Reading while sunbathing makes you well red. A) Hyperbole. B) Pun. C) Irony. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 49. The trees and flowers are dancing in her garden A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 50. Mr. Sharma thought the sweets were calling him. A) Chaimus. B) Personification. C) Apostrophe. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 51. What type of imagery is portrayed in the following sentence?The house is spooky. A) Sight. B) Smell. C) Hearing. D) Taste. E) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sight. 52. The chair sat sternly, ready to receive its master. A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 53. People liked a picture on how useless Facebook is on Facebook. A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 54. The cat's ..... told me it was happy. A) Boom. B) Quack. C) Purr. D) Splash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purr. 55. Analyze the use of personification in the sentence: "The smartphone hummed with notifications." A) The smartphone is literally humming. B) The activity of the smartphone is being compared to humming. C) The smartphone is malfunctioning. D) The smartphone is turned off. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The activity of the smartphone is being compared to humming. 56. Use of words to express the opposite of the literal meaning A) Irony. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 57. 'Lightning danced across the sky.' Which type of figurative tool is used? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 58. A figure of speech is a deviation from the ordinary use of words in order to increase their effectiveness. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 59. Which figure of speech is used in the sentence 'It's raining cats and dogs'? A) Simile (Metaphor). B) Idiom (Hyperbole). C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom (Hyperbole). 60. Substituting the word "euthanasia" for "mercy killing" or "killing the terminally ill" is an example of which of the following figures of speech (APP) A) Oxymoron. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Euphimism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphimism. ← 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