This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. My father brought me new wheels A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Synecdoche. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 2. What word imitates a sound in the following sentence: "I heard the humming of bees?" A) Heard. B) Humming. C) Bees. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humming. 3. "Hush ..... " our adviser said, as we are about to begin our morning prayer. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 4. My wallet sucked all of my money. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. Which figure of speech is the author using?"The bomb went off with a loud bang" A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 6. Which sentence demonstrates personification? A) "The river was a ribbon of silver winding through the countryside.". B) "The old house whispered secrets through its creaky walls.". C) "The stars twinkled like diamonds in the sky.". D) "The sun set slowly, casting a warm glow across the horizon.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The old house whispered secrets through its creaky walls.". 7. "And he's long gone when he's next to me" A) Alliteration. B) Oxymoron. C) Metonymy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 8. This gives human qualities/characteristics to things, places, plants, animals and ideas. What figure of speech is this? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 9. Her singing voice sounded like a door with a squeaky hinge. The simile in this sentence means: A) She sang badly. B) She was out of breath from opening the door. C) She sang beautifully. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She sang badly. 10. What is the figure of speech called when there is a repetition of vowel sounds? A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. E) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Assonance. 11. "Her face is as white as snow, " is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 12. Killer Kangaroos Kick Koalas A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. What is the meaning of the following metaphor:He has the heart of a lion. A) He has a large heart. B) He is courageous. C) He is changing into an animal. D) He is hairy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is courageous. 14. Man proposes, God disposes. A) Antithesis. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 15. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:I am so hungry I can eat a mountain. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 16. Complete the following sentence:Alliteration is the repetition of ..... ? A) Vowels. B) Rhymes. C) Consonants. D) Sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonants. 17. The snow is a white blanket is an example of a??? A) Simile. B) End rhyme. C) Metaphor. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 18. Which of the following figures of speech uses words to evoke the actual sound of the thing they refer to or describe? A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 19. The howling of the wind signifies the coming of a rainy season. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 20. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Robert was white as a sheet after he walked out of the horror movie" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Repetition. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 21. "Sunlight was caressing his window." is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Antithesis. C) Apostrophe. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 22. Don't bother him! He already has a mountain of homework to do. A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 23. As blind as a bat ..... is a type of??? A) Methaphor. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 24. His shout was like the cry of an eagle ready for battle. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 25. "The wind was so cold. The air was so damp I could not move my finger as the wind continued around me" is an emample of A) Personfication. B) Imagery. C) Symbol. D) Hyperboly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 26. The clouds are fluffy cotton candy in the sky. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 27. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing" A) Metaphor. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 28. What is the figure of speech in the sentence 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 29. Life is bitter sweet. A) Apostrophe. B) Oxymoron. C) Tautology. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 30. I couldn't sleep. All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faulty faucet. A) Pun. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 31. What is a word or phrase that means something other than what is actually said? A) Idiom. B) Oxymoron. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 32. 'She swims like a fish.'This is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 33. The sky misses the sun at night. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 34. The players pursued the bouncing ball as fast as they could carry themselves.This is an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 35. Onomatopoeia is best described through which example? A) Pride embraced her as she walked down the aisle. B) The curtain was damaged in the rain again. C) The hissing fireworks on Guy Fawkes. D) Slowly mowing the lawn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The hissing fireworks on Guy Fawkes. 36. Our math teacher whispers while she walks A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 37. Humans need only three things to survive:sustenance, clothing, shelter. A) Asyndeton. B) Anaphora. C) Hendiadys. D) Polysyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asyndeton. 38. Which is the correct spelling of the word below. A) Comparisonn. B) Comparizon. C) Comparison. D) Komparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comparison. 39. Mario wanted to rewrite his report, but he had bigger fish to fry.What does the idiom mean in this sentence? A) He was hungry. B) He had more important things to do first. C) He was lazy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He had more important things to do first. 40. '' You blithering bumpkin" is a n example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 41. What type of imagery is portrayed in the following sentence?The classroom was quiet. A) Sight. B) Taste. C) Smell. D) Sound. E) Hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Hearing. 42. Charlie preferred to eat chocolate chewey cheese flavoured ice-cream. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 43. What figure of speech is described as the usage of exaggerated terms in order to emphasize or heighten the effect of something? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 44. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. A) Simile. B) Metonymy. C) Apostrophe. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 45. My mother is so shy and boring. Last night at the magician show, he called her up on stage for her act. It was hilarious! A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 46. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."Many people passed away because of the endless war of nations." A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Euphemism. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 47. Select the simile A) Your eyes are pretty. B) You have red eyes. C) Your eyes look like caves in a cliff. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Your eyes look like caves in a cliff. 48. He came, he saw, and he conquered. A) Metaphor. B) Synecdoche. C) Parallelism. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 49. So she put them on the shelf A) Tautology. B) Alliteration. C) Synecdoche. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 50. People use figurative language in their daily life. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 51. I received a text message from my mom telling me that I should go home tonight. I told my friends to leave them at 9. Then, I had known that the party died as soon as I left the part. A) METONYMY. B) PERSONIFICATION. C) EUPHEMISM. D) HYPERBOLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PERSONIFICATION. 52. 5) 1. I have told you to clean your room a million times, but you still have not done it! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 53. "You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise" A) Rhetorical Question. B) Anaphora. C) Hendiadys. D) Polysyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 54. Which figure of speech compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 55. He was as brave as a lion. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 56. What does the quote below mean?"The best university of all is a collection of books." A) All universities should have a large book collection. B) Reading books can provide a person with an excellent education. C) A university can be judged by the size of its book collection. D) People who want to attend a university should first read a large collection of books. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reading books can provide a person with an excellent education. 57. Nobody can beat level six. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 58. It crackled and growled and roared and howled. A) Anticlimax. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Climax. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 59. Watson is as fat as a pie. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 60. The popular toy flew off the shelves during the holidays. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. 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