This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When you zip up a zipper the sound the zipper makes sounds like a zipper. A) Alliteration. B) Climax. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 2. The reading yesterday was a Shakespeare play because it was difficult to understand. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. Betsy baked better bread with bananas, blueberries, and butter A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 4. What figure of speech is used in the sentence below?My brother was a hurricane rumbling through the room. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 5. Bright star, I wonder why I can't harness that radiance you carry. A) Metonymy. B) Euphemism. C) Apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 6. A figure of speech in which one object or idea takes the place of another with which it has a close association. A) Apostrophe. B) Understatement. C) Hyperbole. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metonymy. 7. What type of imagery is portrayed in the following sentence?The guest enjoyed a delicious meal. A) Smell. B) Taste. C) Sound. D) Sight. E) Hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taste. 8. We welcomed all the wise men from the west. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole,. C) , personification. D) , metaphor. E) Simile,. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. Which of the following is a direct comparison between two unlike things? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. What figure of speech is thisshe is as blind as a bat A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. Michael is both blind and deaf. Though he is a physically-challenged person, he is still successful in his own little ways. A) EUPHEMISM. B) IRONY. C) HYPERBOLE. D) METONYMY. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) EUPHEMISM. 12. "The president cried a river when he saw the people suffering caused by the pandemic." This is an example of what figure of speech? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 13. Identify the figure of speech in these lines:but teach him also to filter A) Alliteration. B) Consonance (Similar consonant sounds are repeated). C) Simile. D) Assonance (Similar vowel sounds are repeated). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance (Similar vowel sounds are repeated). 14. Brooklyn is like an angel when she ice skates" is a simile A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. He is still in the spring of life. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. Recognize the figure of speech here."My hand is as cold as ice" . A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 17. What is the implied meaning of the metaphor in the sentence: "Technology is a thief" ? A) Technology literally steals objects. B) Technology takes away moments and opportunities. C) Technology is a criminal. D) Technology is valuable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Technology takes away moments and opportunities. 18. The clouds pushed each other around in the sky. A) PERSONIFICATION. B) HYPERBOLE. C) SIMILE. D) METAPHOR. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PERSONIFICATION. 19. He makes strong fires and flourish. A) Internal Rhyme and Personification. B) Tautology and Personification. C) Litotes and simile. D) Simile and personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology and Personification. 20. ..... is the use of words that mimic sounds. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Imagery. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 21. News spread as fast as a bullet. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 22. Choose the Figure of speech used in the following sentence."The water danced across my window." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 23. Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence:The trees were dancing along with the breeze A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 24. Hope springs eternal A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 25. Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 26. Identify the figures of speech1. Variety is the spice of life. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 27. What is the figure of speech in the sentence:'The classroom was a zoo during the break.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 28. The alligator's teeth were white daggers. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 29. Opportunity knocks at the door but once. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 30. Which of the following is a pun? A) Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. B) She has a heart of gold. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. 31. In the sentence 'The world is a stage', what figure of speech is being used? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 32. I've been to the dentist many times so I know the drill. A) Euphemism. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pun. 33. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:'The thunder grumbled like an old man.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 34. What is the figure of speech called when you give an object human qualities? A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 35. What is the figure of speech in which nonhuman or nonliving things are spoken about as if they were human? A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Apostrphe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 36. ..... starts comparison with as and like A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 37. I am so hungry I could eat a horse.This is an example of which literary device? A) Allusion. B) Consonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 38. ..... is repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of the word. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 39. A figure of speech is ..... A) A familiar expression. B) A non-literal way of saying something. C) What the author literally means. D) Something only writers use. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A non-literal way of saying something. 40. "The Earth mourn when Covid killed millions of its people." This is an example of what figure of speech? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 41. A figure of speech that utilizes extreme exaggeration to emphasize a certain quality or feature. A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 42. Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet pointed firmly at our bare feet A) , metaphor,. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole,. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) , metaphor,. 43. '' children will come flocking to my shop and I will feed them poisoned sweets ( ..... ) and wipe them all out like weasels" isan example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 44. No matter how much you push the outside of the envelope, it will still be stationary. A) Hyperbole. B) Pun. C) Irony. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 45. Choose the definition of:Hyperbole A) Comparison using extreme exaggeration. B) Giving an animal or object human characteristics. C) The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning. D) Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comparison using extreme exaggeration. 46. The field is as green as an emerald stone. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 47. Click on the METAPHOR A) Elegant and casual. B) Still felt like a stranger living in a very strange place. C) I'd hear of Prada ( ) and Louis Vuitton ( ) and maybe even Gucci ( ). But I sure didn't own a single stitch of it. D) Ikea, the postcollege apartment mecca; the wooden behemoth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ikea, the postcollege apartment mecca; the wooden behemoth. 48. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:The ballerina was a swan, gliding across the stage. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 49. Give an example of personification. A) The sun is shining brightly. B) The wind whispered through the trees. C) The cat meowed at the door. D) The car drove down the road. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The wind whispered through the trees. 50. We go together like peanut butter and jelly. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 51. Which figure of speech is the author using?"The sack fell into the river with a splash" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 52. "I must be cruel to be kind"-Shakespeare (Hamlet) A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 53. The barbarians broke though the barricade. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 54. Lex Luthor is a snake. A) Simile. B) Personify. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 55. Hold memories of each A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 56. Choose the example of alliteration. A) You glow in my heart like the flames of uncounted candles. B) "It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,. C) People should not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People should not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. 57. What figure of speech is used in the phrase 'the wind whispered through the trees'? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 58. Choose metaphors A) My dad's a real tiger when he's mad. B) The tree smiled. C) I'm so hungry I could eat a whole elephant. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My dad's a real tiger when he's mad. 59. My backpack is of a thousand kilograms!(Mark the figure of speech) A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 60. No one can beat level six A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole,. E) , personification,. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole,. ← 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 6Figures Of Speech Quiz 7Figures Of Speech Quiz 8Figures Of Speech Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books