This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 32 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Choose the type of figurative language used in the following sentence:Tom is as slow as a turtle. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 2. The clouds are AS white AS snow. This is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personfication. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. 'How sweet the sobbing violin!' is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. There was an ear-splitting silence in the auditorium filled with people. What type of figurative language is in this sentence? A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Idiom. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 5. Don't be a stick in the mud! A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 6. What does the following sentence really mean?An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A) If you eat right, you won't need to go to the doctor as often. B) You should bring apples to the doctor's office with you. C) Doctors are afraid of apples. D) You should eat nothing but apples every day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If you eat right, you won't need to go to the doctor as often. 7. When I was at Six Flags, I waited in line for years.What figurative speech is this? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 8. I have so much homework my bookbag weighs a million pounds.Which figurative language is this? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 9. Which is NOT an example of a simile? A) Her heart is like gold. B) Life is a rollercoaster. C) He is as busy as a bee. D) He is as light as a feather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life is a rollercoaster. 10. I haven't seen you in forever! A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 11. What do you call the message the poet wants to give to the reader? A) Form. B) Theme. C) Details. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 12. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?Her smile was a bright ray of sunshine. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 13. Two lines of poetry, one after the other, that rhyme and are of the same length and rhythm. A) Simile. B) Free Verse. C) Rhyme Pattern. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 14. What is the type of imagery that tickles the reader's sense of touch? A) Gustatory. B) Olfactory. C) Auditory. D) Tactile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tactile. 15. The road to my school is thousands of miles long.What does this figurative language mean? A) The school is on a road. B) The road is very long. C) The school is thousands of miles long. D) There are thousands of ways to get to the school. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The road is very long. 16. A word or phrase that means something different than its literal or actual meaning. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 17. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. What does the personification mean in the sentence below?The angry wind robbed the poor tree of its last few leaves. A) Two angry robbers shook off leaves during a storm. B) An angry tree shook off its leaves during a windy day. C) Strong wind blew leaves off of a tree. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strong wind blew leaves off of a tree. 19. An expression that means something more than the literal definition A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 20. That place is a zoo A) Verb. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 21. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words that are close together. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Pun. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 22. Which figurative language is used when giving human traits to non-human things? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 23. "Frank fed four funny fish in the fish tank" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 24. Something that represents something else by resembling it, or association with it, especially a material object used to represent something invisible. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbol. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 25. A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration. Choose the one example of hyperbole. A) I'm so tired that I could go to bed at 4 pm. B) I'm so happy that I feel like dancing. C) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. D) I was so thirty that I drank three glasses of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. 26. Which type of figurative language is below?The sun smiled down on me. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 27. "Conscience is a man's compass." -Vincent Van Gogh A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 28. The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 29. I am going to pass the magnets test with flying colors because I studied hard last night!What does the phrase "pass with flying colors" mean in the sentence above? A) I will be successful on the test. B) I am going to fail the test. C) I am going to do nothing on the test. D) I have no idea what I am doing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I will be successful on the test. 30. What theme is conveyed through the use of figurative language? A) The theme is conveyed through literal descriptions. B) The theme is conveyed through straightforward facts. C) The theme is conveyed through simple statements. D) The theme is conveyed through enhanced imagery and emotional depth. 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