This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Antithesis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 2. Repetition of initial consonant sound which draws attention to the phrase and is often used for emphasis A) Antithesis. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 3. You are an excellent goalkeeper, allowing the other side to score six goals. A) Irony. B) Metonymy. C) Simile. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 4. And live alone in bee-loud glade A) Onomatopoeia. B) Anastrophe. C) Antithesis. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 5. Zian was as brave as a lion. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 6. Sandy works like a sloth. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 7. What is the figurative meaning of 'The run down house appeared depressed and out of sorts.' A) The house appeared inviting and welcoming. B) The narrator is depressed after looking at a lot of houses. C) The house is talking to the narrator, saying 'buy me.'. D) The house is in desperate need of fixing up/remodeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The house is in desperate need of fixing up/remodeling. 8. What figure of speech is used in the phrase 'the stars danced in the sky'? A) The figure of speech used is hyperbole. B) The figure of speech used is simile. C) The figure of speech used is metaphor. D) The figure of speech used is personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The figure of speech used is personification. 9. Identify the figure of speech in the sentence 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.' A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 10. Which of the following are figures of speech? A) Personification. B) Adverbial phrase. C) The girl is in the room. D) Abstract noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. Which of the following is an example of ALLUSION? A) "The river shines brightly as if it were filled with silver dusts.". B) "Without you, no day ever makes sense.". C) "No Madonna and Child could touchthat picture of a mother's tendernessfor a son she soon would have to forget.". D) "I think I'm gonna win this time!Riding on the wind, and I won't give up!". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "No Madonna and Child could touchthat picture of a mother's tendernessfor a son she soon would have to forget.". 12. Identify the Figure of Speech from the following lines: ..... Nor did the wisest wizard guess A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. 6) I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi ..... will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 14. What is an alliteration? A) Words that sound like the noise something make. B) The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words. C) When an object or animal is given human characteristics. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words. 15. Her grandmother passed away last month. A) Euphemism. B) Irony. C) Pun. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 16. Break a leg when you go on stage. A) Idiom. B) Pun. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 17. The wind whispered in the trees. This is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.' A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. Elizabeth said it was no big deal to forgive her sister for their fight last week. "It's water under the bridge, " she assured her. A) Something no one wants to talk about. B) A huge problem that must be solved. C) More important than anything else. D) Something past that no longer matters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Something past that no longer matters. 20. What figure of speech was used in this sentence:The sea mocked us with its laughter. A) Metaphor. B) Apostrophe. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 21. O Hamlet! Thou hast cleft my heart in twain. A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 22. Which literary device is used when apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction? A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 23. 4) Her smile was a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 24. A lot of teachers are having a working vacation this summer. A) IRONY. B) PARADOX. C) OXYMORON. D) LITOTES. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) OXYMORON. 25. Which figure of speech is the speaker using?"We will fight come what may, we will fight on all fronts, we will fight for a thousand years." A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Repetition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 26. The sun smiled down on us. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 27. Identify the figure of speech in these lines:Teach him to be gentlewith gentle people, A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 28. "The cat's as fast as a jet on a runway" is an example of a metaphor. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. "Do as I say not as I do." is an example of ..... A) Litotes. B) Anaphora. C) Pun. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chiasmus. 30. Pam was skinny enough to jump through a key hole A) Alliteration. B) , personification,. C) , hyperbole. D) Metaphor,. E) Simile,. 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