This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who can fight life when death steps in? A) Tautology. B) Interrogation. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interrogation. 2. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:That person runs like a road-runner. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 3. The bells of the church went ding dong.Select the right word in the above sentence which shows onomatopoeia A) Went. B) Ding Dong. C) Bells. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ding Dong. 4. Greedy google eyes A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 5. The sun stretched its golden arms across the land. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. My teacher has eyes in the back of her head. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 7. Giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. When our dog gave birth in the park she got a ticket for littering. A) Pun. B) Euphemism. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 9. Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence. Ms. Leni Robredo made a fiery speech. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 10. When words are literal, they mean exactly what they say. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. "This was a minor crisis and the only choice was to drop the product line, " (Todd 2007). A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 12. Can you lift that heavy bag like Hercules? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. Which of the following words is an example of onomatopoeia? A) Crash. B) Beautiful. C) Tricky Technology. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crash. 14. He was blabbering so much nonsense that I died of embarrassment A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 15. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Do you want to be a failure for the rest of your life?" A) Metaphor. B) Antithesis. C) Rhetorical question. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical question. 16. "I'm so thirtsy I could drink a lake" is imagery A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 17. This figure of speech uses the situation or context of the situation of the word to alter the word's meaning. A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 18. Her words were daggers, each one cutting deeper than the last. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 20. Identify the figure of speech in these lines:all he hears on a screen of truth, and take only the good that comes through. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance (Similar vowel sounds are repeated). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 21. Which of the following BEST example of Personification? A) My mother is a tiger in our house. B) We received three emails. C) The leaves danced in the wind. D) We won a ton of cash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The leaves danced in the wind. 22. Why do literary writers use figurative language? A) Because Beyonce uses it in her songs. B) To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point. C) To be grammatically correct. D) To structure their writing into paragraphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point. 23. Life is a rollercoaster ride. A) Hyperbole. B) Euphemism. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 24. She made me want to stay, so I said my goodbyes. What figure of speech was used here? A) Personification. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 25. The night was as dark as coal. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 26. The bunny is as cute as a button! A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 27. A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. ABBA A) Chiasmus. B) Hendiadys. C) Anaphora. D) Asyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 28. My black cat is named Snowball. A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 29. Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: "The crisp crunch of leaves underfoot created a calming cadence in the quiet woods." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 30. Give an example of onomatopoeia. A) The smell of a flower is an example of onomatopoeia. B) The color blue is an example of onomatopoeia. C) A cat purring is an example of onomatopoeia. D) The sound of a clock ticking 'tick-tock' is an example of onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The sound of a clock ticking 'tick-tock' is an example of onomatopoeia. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesFigures Of Speech Quiz 1Figures Of Speech Quiz 2Figures Of Speech Quiz 4Figures Of Speech Quiz 5Figures Of Speech Quiz 6Figures Of Speech Quiz 7Figures Of Speech Quiz 8Figures Of Speech Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books