This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Crazy cats kept coming constantly. A) Assonance. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 2. Identify the simile in the following sentence: A) Her smile was as bright as the sun. B) He is the sun of my life. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her smile was as bright as the sun. 3. In the end, we are all puppets, our strings pulled by unseen forces. A) Personification. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 4. What figure of speech was used in this sentence:The curtain was waving to everyone every time the wind blew through the open window. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Apostrophe. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. Identify the Figure of Speech from the following lines: ..... No prophet durst declare;Nor did the wisest wizard guess A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. Lightning danced across the sky. A) Oxymoron. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 7. The following sentence is an example of what figure of speech?The lovely lollipops is lying on the leather lounger. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Abstract noun. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 8. This is the attitude the author give the character or the piece he or she has written. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 9. What figure of speech is used in the sentence below:Trying to get Paula out of bed was like pulling teeth! A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 10. I am starving that I could eat a cow. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 11. The thunder cracked in the night. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 12. What is an onomatipoeia? A) An over exaggeration. B) A long word. C) Giving nonliving things human characteristics. D) ZAPP. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ZAPP. 13. A type of figurative language that gives human traits or characteristics to nonliving objects is called A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 14. Identify the part of speech "Education is our passport to the future, and tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today" (UND) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. Direct comparison of two different things. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. What figure of speech is used in the word 'buzz'? A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 17. What figure of speech is being asked? "Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow flakes." A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. When the news of the failure came, all his friends said that was a victorious defeat. A) Oxymoron. B) Synecdoche. C) Metonymy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 19. The plates danced on the shelves during the earthquake is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 20. Father works like a dog. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 21. It is raining cats and dogs is an example of which figure of speech? A) Metaphor. B) Hypernite. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 22. That rat is Sherlock Holmes!(Mark the figure of speech) A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Apostrophe. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 23. Typhoon Ulysses removed a great number of houses in Cagayan. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 24. The plane was dancing in the air. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 25. He runs as fast as Formula 1.(Mark the figure of speech) A) Metaphor. B) Apostrophe. C) Simile. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 26. Euphemism is used to soften or mask an unpleasant idea. (a) A) A. True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. True. 27. The homeless survived in their cardboard palaces. A) Irony. B) Oxymoron. C) Apostrophe. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 28. My heart has been skipping around in my chest since I saw her. A) HYPERBOLE. B) ONOMATOPOEIA. C) PERSONIFICATION. D) LITERAL. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PERSONIFICATION. 29. Which of the following sentences uses a pun? A) She had a photographic memory but never developed it. B) The sunset paints the sky in shades of orange and pink. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She had a photographic memory but never developed it. 30. Choose the Figure of speech used in the following sentence."She squealed as soon as she saw Daniel Padilla behind the curtain." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 31. As bold as a lion ..... is an example of??? A) Theme. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 32. Identify the figure of speech in these lines:but never to put a price-tag on his heart and soul. A) Alliteration and Metaphor. B) Repetition and Metaphor. C) Oxymoron and Alliteration. D) Metaphor and Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration and Metaphor. 33. What figure of speech is used in this sentence?"The camels are the ships in the desert." A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 34. I heard that last slice of pizza calling my name. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 35. Love is like war:easy to begin but very hard to stop. A) Smilie. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smilie. 36. "I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow!" is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Rhyme. C) Personfication. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 37. What figure of speech was used in this sentence:Shame on you, poverty, for our determination will win out. A) Metaphor. B) Apostrophe. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 38. Select the correct definition of a metaphor? A) A picture to describe a word. B) The name of a planet. C) The repetition of a word. D) A comparison without the use of as or like. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A comparison without the use of as or like. 39. The audience knows from the beginning of the movie that the beast is a prince, but Belle does not. A) Dramatic Irony. B) Apostrophe. C) Situational Irony. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic Irony. 40. And I walk a thousand miles if I could just see you ..... the lyrics is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 41. What is it called when contradictory terms appear together side by side? A) Idiom. B) Oxymoron. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 42. The Sun has already set when she went back . If only she waited some more ..... What figure of speech was used here? A) Ellipsis. B) Euphemism. C) Apostrophe. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ellipsis. 43. Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence:I like sports cars more than drag cars A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 44. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."She never has anything interesting to say." A) Euphemism. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 45. She wept oceans of tears. A) Transferred Epithet. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 46. This part of speech give human characteristic to non human entities. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 47. "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night;" is an example of??? A) Simile. B) Symbolism. C) Tone. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 48. The clouds cried drops of rain. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 49. What do you call seagulls that fly over the bay? Baygulls! A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 50. Which form of figurative speech is this an example of? Splash! We all jumped into the pool. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 51. I dig my toes into the sand. The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 52. "The flowers were begging to be watered." The sentence above is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Euphemism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 53. The leaves crunched under my boots as I was walking in the woods. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 54. You are my shining star. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 55. Figures of Speech Review A) A simile uses 'like' or 'as' to compare two things, while a metaphor does not. B) A simile and a metaphor both use 'like' or 'as' to compare two things. C) A metaphor uses 'like' or 'as' to compare two things, while a simile does not. D) A simile and a metaphor are the same thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A simile uses 'like' or 'as' to compare two things, while a metaphor does not. 56. Which of the following statements is a personification? A) The leaves whisper their secrets to one another. B) The sun is a ball of fire. C) His lips were as white as vinegar when he broke her mom's favourite vase. D) The baby is as meek as a lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The leaves whisper their secrets to one another. 57. We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end ..... we shall never surrender. A) Anaphora. B) Cliche. C) Conceit. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 58. Oh no! It's starting to rain. Where are you, Mister Sun? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metonymy. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 59. "This is a nightmare, " Tanya said. "We're stranded in strange city with no money."What does the metaphor mean? A) Tanya is having a bad dream. B) Tanya is in a frightening situation. C) Tanya is on vacation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tanya is in a frightening situation. 60. Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.Kristen's brother is the coolest because he can burp the alphabet. A) Kristen. B) Alphabet. C) Brother. D) Burp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burp. ← 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