This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Again came the tong-ting-tong of a sheep bell. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 2. Death touched Miss David with its icy fingers. A) Litotes. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. This is nice hot coffee. A) Polysyndeton. B) Alliteration. C) Hendiadys. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hendiadys. 4. Things became hard in life so she just kept swimming. What does this mean? A) She gave up. B) She kept going. C) She went to sleep. D) She stoped in the middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She kept going. 5. You are always such a big baby! A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 6. The road to success is always under construction. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Pun. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 7. Juan had a hard time hearing the teacher over his grumbling stomach. *What is the onomatopoeia? A) Grumbling. B) Teacher. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grumbling. 8. 'They lived and laughed and loved and left.' (James Joyce). This quote is an example of what type of figure of speech? A) Satire. B) Polysyndeton. C) Hypophora. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polysyndeton. 9. "I'm so thirtsy, I could drink a lake." is an example of Oxymoron. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. "Help came running fast when the Filipinos needed each other." This is an example of what figure of speech? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. Which of these completes this sentence with alliteration?Are you hungry? Let's find a cafe for ..... , ..... and ..... A) Egg, chips and cola. B) Coffee, cakes and tea. C) Coffee, cakes and cola. D) Fish, chips and coffee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coffee, cakes and cola. 12. The phrase "The thunder growled in the distance" is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. The sentence "The eager elephant eagerly ate eight enormous eggs" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. How does the Easter bunny stay fit? EGG-XERCISE! A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 15. A joining of two seemingly contradictory terms A) Euphemism. B) Paradox. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 16. Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "The computer has a mind of its own." A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 17. It is a figure of speech which shows expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. A) Alliteration. B) Synecdoche. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 18. The grass waved to the Alex at the park. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 19. A (an) ..... is a play on words. A) Pun. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 20. With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right. A) Anaphora. B) Conceit. C) Euphemism. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 21. Away, away in the Northland A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Repetition. D) Tautology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 22. What type of imagery is portrayed in the following sentence?The movie was great. A) Sight. B) Taste. C) Smell. D) Sound. E) Hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sight. 23. Her smile was as bright as the sun. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 24. The evening was lonely for me, and I was reading a book A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 25. What figure of speech is used in the phrase 'as brave as a lion'? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 26. Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence:The ferrari roma zoomed across the city A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 27. Wow, they really pulled out all the stops for Lydia's birthday party! Everyone's having a great time. A) Made a lot of delicious food. B) Made it as good as possible. C) Only inveited certain people. D) Spent all their money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Made it as good as possible. 28. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:The gushing wind blew through the trees. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 29. He floated like a boat in the water. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 30. A pilot has a fear of heights. A) Dramatic Irony. B) Oxymoron. C) Antithesis. D) Situational Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Situational Irony. 31. Its a free ride that you already paid ..... the lyric is an example of A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 32. Lekan is always as busy as a bee. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 33. Identify the Figure of Speech from the following lines: ..... The rime was on the spray;And starlight lit my lonesomenessWhen I set out for Lyonnesse A) Assonance. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 34. Why do authors use allusions? A) A. To make meaningful connections between texts. B) B. To engage readers in an inside joke. C) C. To provide new and meaningful connections to the plot, characters, or setting. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 35. Danny swims like a fish. A) METAPHOR. B) PERSONIFICATION. C) HYPERBOLE. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SIMILE. 36. Which figure of speech is used in the phrase "jumbo shrimp" ? A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Anaphora. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 37. A ..... took the friends to the party. A) Red, old, car. B) Lovely, long, limousine. C) Broken, down, lorry. D) Rusty, old, car. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lovely, long, limousine. 38. "Ellie's dog, Maggie, is a sweeter than candy." is a metaphor A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 39. Steven boxes in the light-heavyweight division. A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 40. Identify the hyperbole in the following sentence: A) She ran like the wind. B) He's as strong as an ox. C) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. D) The book was interesting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. 41. My love for you is as deep as the ocean. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 42. The lively boat ran merrily over the waves. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 43. On a starry winter night in PortugalWhere the ocean kissed the southern shoreThere a dream I never thought would come to passCame and went like time spent through an hourglassthis is an example of??? A) Consonance. B) Tone. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 44. Which of the following is not an example of simile? A) She acts like Maria Clara. B) She is as white as snow. C) Love is a battlefield. D) He eats like a pig. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love is a battlefield. 45. The Moon carried her in its arms and rocked her to permanent sleep. What figure of speech was used here? A) Metaphor. B) Euphemism. C) Ellipsis. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 46. Identify the Figure of Speech from the following lines: ..... Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon-' A) Repetition, Personification. B) Metaphor, Personification. C) Alliteration, Metaphor. D) Personification, Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition, Personification. 47. Which of the following sentences show onomatopoeia? A) He opened the bottle with great force. B) The bottle opened with a fizz. C) Bhuvan opened the bottle with a loud noise. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The bottle opened with a fizz. 48. "The fat comedian is as plump as a pillow." is what figure of speech? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 49. What is the figure of speech used in the line "A happy life depends on the liver" ? A) Chiasmus. B) Pun. C) Euphemism. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 50. What type of figure of speech is present in this sentence?The alarm clock yells at me in the mornings. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 51. This is known as the dictionary definition of the figure of speech. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 52. Spirit of Beauty, how could you, whose radiance over brims the sky, stand hidden behind a candle's tiny flame? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Repetition. D) Metaphor. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 53. Ever-elusive Happiness, please be mine. A) Metonymy. B) Euphemism. C) Apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 54. What figure of speech is being asked? "Have you read Shakespeare? '' A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Metonymy. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 55. "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Antithesis. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 56. In the sweat of thy face shall though eat bread. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Metonymy. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 57. Our conversation seemed to go on for days. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 58. Irony is a figure of speech with the use of LIKE or AS. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 59. I am dying of thirst. A) METAPHOR. B) SIMILE. C) HYPERBOLE. D) PERSONIFICATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) HYPERBOLE. 60. My love for you is as wide as the universe, as deep as the ocean. A) SIMILE. B) METAPHOR. C) PERSONIFICATION. D) ALLITERATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SIMILE. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesFigures Of Speech Quiz 1Figures Of Speech Quiz 2Figures Of Speech Quiz 3Figures 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