This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:The water angrily flowed towards the sea. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. My teacher has eyes in the back of her head is an example of ..... (EVA) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 3. Life is a barren field A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. O William, you should be living now to see all this. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 5. "The health professionals are soldiers protecting us from our fight against the Covid 19 Pandemic." This is an example of what figure of speech? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. Which figure of speech is Shakespeare using?"The world's a stage" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 7. "'I'm a lovely tree that loves to dance' said the tree" is a rhyme A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. The new set of officers are as busy as a bee. A) METAPHOR. B) PERSONIFICATION. C) HYPERBOLE. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SIMILE. 9. In the movie, "Toy Story", human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move but the audience is. A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 10. He doesn't always tell the truth, so I'd take what he says with a grain of salt. A) Without question. B) With some doubt. C) With other people's opinions. D) With anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With some doubt. 11. The figure of speech in which the author makes an obvious exaggeration for emphasis or to create some other specific effect is ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Metonymy. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 12. I'll see you long and dark as tunnels, bright as rainbows, playful as chestnutwind. A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. The wind howled like a ..... as the storm raged. A) Kitten. B) Wounded animal. C) Hammer. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wounded animal. 14. She was as quiet as a mouse A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. Mary looked at the clock. Time was crawling. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 16. Ito ay pagpapalit ng katangian ng isang tao sa mga walang buhay. A) Pagmamalabis o Hyperbole. B) Pagtutulad o Simile. C) Pagsasatao o Personipikasyon. D) Pagwawangis o Metapora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pagsasatao o Personipikasyon. 17. What do you call an exaggerated statement used to heighten the effect? A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 18. Is a figure of language when words that start with the same sound (not just the same letter) are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 19. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Emily is as cold as ice" A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbaton. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 20. "The debate was a piece of cake." It is the example of Metaphor. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 21. He is as soft as concrete A) Irony. B) Antithesis. C) Antromorphism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 22. "it is really dull day when we don't go to the mall"This sentence is an example of: A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 23. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 24. Paradox and oxymoron mean the same thing. (a) A) A. False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. False. 25. What is it called when an outcome is the opposite of what is expected? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 26. The cactus saluted any visitor brave enough to travel the scorched land. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 27. Don't throw in the towel now! The game isn't over yet. A) Keep on trying. B) Get some rest. C) Give up. D) Get too sweaty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Give up. 28. Make this sentence into a Simile"Her eyes are diamonds." A) Her eyes shine like a diamond. B) Her eyes are bright. C) Her eyes are expensive. D) Her eyes are shining diamonds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her eyes shine like a diamond. 29. Many Mechanics Made Mary's Mother's Motor Move. A) Repetition. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 30. Go cry me a river! A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 31. Which figure of speech is the author using?"I am so hungry I could eat a horse" A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Repetition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 32. What does the quote below mean? "Striving for success without hard work is like yryinbgto harvest where you haven't planted? (ANA) A) To be successful you must first work hard. B) It is wrong to work hard for success. C) It is important to strive for success where you plant to harvest. D) You should plant crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To be successful you must first work hard. 33. Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of nearby words. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. What figure of speech is used in the following sentence?The leaves of the tree danced in the breeze. A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 35. She is an open book = she has nothing to hide. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 36. Have you seen a fish drowning? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Irony. 37. Kelani is as proud as a peacock. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 38. A figure of speech in which two dissimilar things are compared to each other using the terms "like" or "as." A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 39. My mother is my east and west. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 40. Go, grow, and glow groceries are sold by the road. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 41. He can reach the sky A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 42. My mom is going to explode when I show her my grades. *Choose the correct figure of speech A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 43. Figurative expression which compares two different things in a figurative sense. "Like" and "as" are not used (A is B.). A) Simile. B) Euphemism. C) Comparison. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 44. "He is as quick as a leopard." is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 45. The leaves whispered to my ears when I went to the forest. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 46. Life is a precious possession. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 47. She is as crazy as a monkey A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 48. We will swear loyalty to the crown. A) Synecdoche. B) Verbal irony. C) Metonymy. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 49. The wind whisper as it blows inside my ear. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 50. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked? A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 51. "Twinkle twinkle little star." Which figure of speech is this? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 52. "Then leaf subsides to leaf/ So Eden sank to grief" (Frost 5-6).What is the allusion? A) Eden. B) Leaf. C) Grief. D) Sank. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eden. 53. Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in technology? A) The computer was a lightning-fast machine. B) She downloaded a million files in a second. C) The smartphone was a gentle whisper in her pocket. D) The server stood tall and proud in the data center. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She downloaded a million files in a second. 54. Imagery is the use of words to create images in the reader's mind based on five senses. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 55. She stood out like the Sun. What figure of speech was used here? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Apostrophe. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 56. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."My friend is big-boned." A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Oxymoron. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 57. The sun played hide and seek with the clouds. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 58. Repeating words or phrases throughout the text to emphasise certain facts or ideas A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 59. Determine the meaning of the following simile:Her eyes are like fiery diamonds. A) Sparkly and bright. B) Hard and hot. C) Warm and light. D) Expensive and desirable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sparkly and bright. 60. The humble bee's bass and drums boomed beneath. A) ASSONANCE. B) ALLITERATION. C) LITOTES. D) OXYMORON. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ALLITERATION. ← 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