Figurative Language Quiz 22 (30 MCQs)

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1. Talking animals are an example of what type of figurative language?
2. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?Emily swam like a dolphin in the pool.
3. Giving human qualities to something non-human
4. What type of figurative language is shown?Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.
5. Which literary device is used in the following line from Annabel Lee? "And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes"
6. The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.What figure of speech is this?
7. Lovingly, she stroked the baby's velvety skin.
8. Bob Ross expresses many feelings through his paintings.
9. Which sentence below uses alliteration?
10. His smile is as creepy as a pumpkin on Halloween.
11. "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of what kind of figurative language?
12. Gaslights bloomed on the new streetslike flowers, and lit with a "Pop!" at night.This has examples of:
13. It's when the beginning consonant sound repeats
14. Giving non-human objects human like qualities is called .....
15. Which type of figurative language is below?The soccer player was a bolt of lightning zooming across the field.
16. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
17. What does it really mean: "She was pulling my leg."
18. Words that are used within a poem repeatedly to express a certain point
19. Which of the following is the best example of specific diction?
20. An expression that means something other than the usual meaning of the words
21. The moon smiled at the earth.
22. He was a car speeding through the streets is an example of .....
23. "In a smithy one sees a white-hot axehead or an adzeplunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam ..... the way they make soft iron hale and hard ..... just so that eyeball hissed around the spike."
24. She sang of his love forever
25. Using the same consonant sound throughout the sentence is .....
26. What type of figurative language is being used in the quote?"Nick's nephew needed new notebooks."
27. Outrageous exaggeration made to emphasize a point.
28. The little road says, Go, The little house says, Stay
29. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?If Francis wins the lottery tonight, I'll eat my hat.
30. What is the definition of metaphor?