This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A polite or indirect expression that is used to de-emphasize an unpleasant topic A) Hyperbole. B) Euphemism. C) Paradox. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 2. The wind whispered the rumors of the forest. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 3. "This is the beginning of an end." is an example of ..... A) Paradox. B) Antithesis. C) Pun. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 4. What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:I saw the coolest concert last night. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. I'll watch you word, rise and dance and spin A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. Little Lily was the loveliest lady I saw in Longshore. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 7. I kicked the soccer ball so hard it screamed all the way into the goal. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 8. A rhetorical figure that intentionally deviates from the ordinary language. A) Sensory Images. B) Figures of Speech. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figures of Speech. 9. What is an exaggeration used to make or prove a point? A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Alliteration. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 10. Of air that is everywhere our own. A) Tautology. B) Hyperbole. C) Synecdoche. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 11. Hyperbole is for exaggeration. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 12. The aesthetically-challenged man will undergo cosmetic surgery. A) Metonymy. B) Euphemism. C) Apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 13. Choose the Figure of speech used in the following sentence."The boy fell into the lake with a splash." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 14. These parts of speech uses words or phrases to contradict themselves. A) Simile/metaphor. B) Oxymoron/paradox. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron/paradox. 15. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Megan made mellow music with her new microphone" A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 16. "How nice!" she said, when I told her I had to work all weekend. A) Apostrophe. B) Synecdoche. C) Metonymy. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal irony. 17. The thick white blanket lay on the warm Earth is an example of which figure of speech. A) Metaphor. B) Hyper nite. C) Simile. D) Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. It is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to an object, an animal or an idea. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. Meow, where's my milk, cried the cat is an example of? A) Litotes. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Anticlimax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 20. Let's call it a day. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 21. Which two figures of speech involve comparisons? (REM) A) Simile & Metaphor. B) Hyperbole & Simile. C) Personification & Idiom. D) Alliteration & Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile & Metaphor. 22. My mom has a green thumb. A) Metonymy. B) Apostrophe. C) Synecdoche. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 23. Butter bakes better biscuits is an example of? A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 24. What kind of figure of speech is an opposite of what you mean? A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 25. "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." (Identify the figure of speech) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 26. This figures of speech give human characteristic to non human entities. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 27. Her face can launch a thousand ships. A) Smile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 28. Identify the figure of speech in these lines:Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel. A) Repetition and Metaphor. B) Alliteration and Metaphor. C) Oxymoron and Alliteration. D) Metaphor and Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration and Metaphor. 29. I am excited to hear the popping of popcorns. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 30. What are the 5 Sensory Images? A) Sight, Hear, Smell, Taste, Touch. B) Sighting, Hear, Smell, Taste, Touch. C) Sight, Hearing, Smell, Feel, Taste. D) Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch. 31. Mr. Arendt was crazy like a fox. What does the simile mean in this sentence? A) He was insane. B) He was mean and dangerous. C) He was clever and sly. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was clever and sly. 32. The plane ride took forever. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 33. Milton! Thou should be living at this hour. A) Personification. B) Euphemism. C) Apostrophe. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 34. Is he the man who can run a trillion kilo meters?.(Mark the figure of speech) A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 35. You are as pretty as a flower. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 36. What figure of speech shows exaggeration of ideas to emphasize a point? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 37. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. A) Cliche. B) Metaphor. C) Euphemism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cliche. 38. Saying, "Good job!" to someone who just rear ended a car. A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 39. Wow! This is an example of which figure of speech? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 40. In your history book, you read about a young man in the Irish War of Independence who kills a British soldier. That soldier who was killed turns out to be his favourite cousin. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 41. She was as bright as a star in the midnight sky. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 42. My room is a dustbin A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 43. The shrieks of pain and glory hindered her mind. What figure of speech was used here? A) Euphemism. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 44. Choose the definition of:Simile A) Language that uses words and details that appeal to a readers senses, such as sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell and emotions. 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) Type of figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things which does not use the words like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Type of figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things by using the words like or as. 45. The car complained about its master on the way to the garage A) Tautology. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 46. The district manager was coming later that day, so the team took extra care to cross their t's and dot their i's. A) Show up on time. B) Make sure every samll detail was right. C) Do everything the way they normally would. D) Make everything extra special. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make sure every samll detail was right. 47. Ito ay sadyang paglayo sa karaniwang paggamit ng mga salita, kung kaya't magiging malalim at piling-pili ang mga salita A) Pagsasaling-wika. B) Retorika. C) Tayutay. D) Tula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tayutay. 48. Donna's brother said, "You're selling yourself short." What does she mean by this? A) You need to grow a little taller. B) You are note giving yourself enough credit. C) You are a little short. D) You do not need to worry about being tall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You are note giving yourself enough credit. 49. What is personfication? A) Givng nonliving things human chartacteristics. B) Giving a human animal chartacteristics. C) Rhythm. D) Being mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Givng nonliving things human chartacteristics. 50. Your teeth are like stars A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 51. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Laura is a walking dictionary" A) Hyperbole. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 52. These are great pictures ..... the camera loves you! A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 53. Tick-Tick, the clock was singing ..... (Mark the figure of speech) A) Apostrophe. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 54. Don't let the cat out of the bag. A) Idiom. B) Pun. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 55. Her brain is the size of a pea. A) Metaphor. B) Apostrophe. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 56. She has a heart of a lion. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 57. The appearance of hands, like two fine threads A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 58. The train was a speeding bullet. A) PERSONIFICATION. B) HYPERBOLE. C) METAPHOR. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) METAPHOR. 59. A question without a direct answer, mainly because it's obvious, raised by the author or speaker A) Easy question. B) Question mark. C) Double question. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 60. I am the richest man in the world! A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. 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