This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 8 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentence:The ferrari roma zoomed across the city A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 2. 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. 3. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:The gushing wind blew through the trees. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 4. He floated like a boat in the water. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 5. A pilot has a fear of heights. A) Dramatic Irony. B) Antithesis. C) Oxymoron. D) Situational Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Situational Irony. 6. Its a free ride that you already paid ..... the lyric is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 7. Lekan is always as busy as a bee. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. 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) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 9. 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. 10. Danny swims like a fish. A) METAPHOR. B) PERSONIFICATION. C) HYPERBOLE. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SIMILE. 11. Which figure of speech is used in the phrase "jumbo shrimp" ? A) Hyperbole. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 12. A ..... took the friends to the party. A) Rusty, old, car. B) Red, old, car. C) Lovely, long, limousine. D) Broken, down, lorry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lovely, long, limousine. 13. "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. 14. Steven boxes in the light-heavyweight division. A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 15. Identify the hyperbole in the following sentence: A) She ran like the wind. B) The book was interesting. C) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. D) He's as strong as an ox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. 16. My love for you is as deep as the ocean. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 17. The lively boat ran merrily over the waves. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 18. 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) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 19. Which of the following is not an example of simile? A) He eats like a pig. B) She is as white as snow. C) She acts like Maria Clara. D) Love is a battlefield. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love is a battlefield. 20. The Moon carried her in its arms and rocked her to permanent sleep. What figure of speech was used here? A) Euphemism. B) Ellipsis. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 21. What is the figure of speech called when there is a repetition of the same or letter at the beginning of the word? A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Simile. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. "The fat comedian is as plump as a pillow." is what figure of speech? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 25. What is the figure of speech used in the line "A happy life depends on the liver" ? A) Pun. B) Chiasmus. C) Euphemism. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 26. What type of figure of speech is present in this sentence?The alarm clock yells at me in the mornings. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 27. 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. 28. Spirit of Beauty, how could you, whose radiance over brims the sky, stand hidden behind a candle's tiny flame? A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 29. Ever-elusive Happiness, please be mine. A) Metonymy. B) Euphemism. C) Apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 30. What figure of speech is being asked? "Have you read Shakespeare? '' A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Metonymy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. ← 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books