This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 20 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I am dying because of boredom is an example of: A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 2. Which quality is given to an inanimate object, through the use of personification? A) Sound quality. B) Colour quality. C) Human quality. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human quality. 3. What does the quote below mean?"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted." A) To be successful, you must first work hard. B) It is wrong to work hard for success. C) You should plant crops where you plan to harvest them. D) It is important to strive for success. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To be successful, you must first work hard. 4. Which figure of speech exaggerates or overstates something for emphasis? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Understatement. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 5. The world does not care to hear your sad stories. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 6. Allow me, It's easy as ABCD A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 7. I hear you, words, loud as searoar's A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 8. There is no "Open Sesame" to the treasure of knowledge. A) SYNECHDOCHE. B) ALLUSION. C) METAPHOR. D) ONOMATOPOEIA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ALLUSION. 9. It is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated objects or ideas without the use of as or like. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. Let's just say that Bozo the Clown is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. A) Metonymy. B) Litotes. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Litotes. 11. She forgot her homework four days in a row and felt as flaky as a snowstorm. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. How is a metaphor different than a simile? A) A metaphor is the same as a simile. B) A metaphor does not use like or as in the comparison of two unlike things. C) A metaphor is not at all similar to a simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A metaphor does not use like or as in the comparison of two unlike things. 13. Jenny and Tom are cats and dogs whenever they fight. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. Her happiness overweighed her heavy heart. What figure of speech was used here? A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Apostrophe. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. Life is a beach! A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 16. Which figure of speech is used when a speaker say something which the intended meaning is the opposite? A) Irony. B) Metonymy. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 17. She ran like a horse is an example of which figure of speech? A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Non fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. Which of the following statement 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 favorite vase. D) The baby is as meek as a lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The leaves whisper their secrets to one another. 19. The world is a stage. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 20. Which of these creates a stronger comparison? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 21. The phrase "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" is an example of ..... A) Repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of clauses. B) A metaphor for winter. C) A simile for cold weather. D) An alliteration of sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of clauses. 22. Metaphor is when you compare two things using like or as. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Here are the rules:Ignore all rules. A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 24. In a TV show I saw a flying carpet.(Mark the figure of speech) A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 25. Identify the figure of speech in these lines:He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, all men are not true. A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 26. Your explanation is as clear as mud. Which is the Figure of Speech used here? A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 27. Choose the Figure of speech used in the following sentence."My dog is telling me to start dinner." A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 28. Does your mother cook the fried rice? It looks delicious. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 29. "Filipinos are like the stars. They still find ways to shine even in their dark moments." This is an example of what figure of speech? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 30. Choose the Figure of speech used in the following sentence."Joey's car swerved off the freeway with a screech." A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. ← 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