This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 34 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 34 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Dying of Laughter A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 2. Which figurative language is an exaggeration that is so dramatic, no one would believe it? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Analogy. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 3. What type of figurative language is used in the sentence:'The classroom was a zoo during recess.'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. It was the biggest pimple in the whole world. There was no way I was going to school ever again in my life. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 5. This figurative language compares two things using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. What is a language that uses words in ways that shift from their literal interpretation to achieve a more complex or powerful effect A) Figurative Language. B) Literal Language. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative Language. 7. When two things are compared using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Proverb/adage. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. This type of figurative language uses words that start with the same sound in a sentence or phrase. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 9. PersonificationWhen you give human qualities or abilities to an object or animal.Example: "Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy." ( "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein) A) Personification is giving human qualities to non-human things. B) Personification is a metaphor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification is giving human qualities to non-human things. 10. Name the form of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE used:Sivan listened to the constant chatter of the third-graders as they raced across the playground. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatoepia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatoepia. 11. The snow danced around in the wind. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 12. Which song lyrics contain a simile? A) Half of my heart is in Havana. B) I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know. C) I am titanium. D) Falling like ashes to the ground. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falling like ashes to the ground. 13. Which sentence is an example of hyperbole? A) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. B) The flowers danced in the breeze. C) The classroom was a zoo. D) The thunder grumbled like an old man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. 14. Name the figurative language: "many moons passed before March arrived." A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. A comparison in which one thing is said to be another A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Proverb/adage. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. Figurative or LiteralThe car is not working properly. A) Figurative Language. B) Literal Meaning. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literal Meaning. 17. What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?It took me 100 years to finish my homework last night. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 18. The waves are racing towards the shore. A) PERSONIFICATION. B) SIMILE. C) ONOMATOPOEIA. D) HYPERBOLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PERSONIFICATION. 19. She sells sea shells by the seashore is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 20. What technique is being used in the following passage:The water opened its arms and invited them in. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 21. Is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two unlike objects. A) Similie. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Similie. 22. Type of sound device in which two or more nearby words have the same beginning sound: A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 23. "Kevin tripping in the hallway was seriously funny." A) Colloquialism. B) Idiom. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 24. My dad is a bear without his coffee A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Symbol. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 25. I am dying of shame is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 26. What type of figurative language is being used in the quote?"Jack was a bulldozer on the football field." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 27. Chrystal is a kind girl. She has a heart of gold. A) Proverb or adage. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 28. An epic hero embodies the values of the civilization. Odysseus portrays of the following values EXCEPT A) Bravery. B) Intelligence. C) Hospitality. D) Leadership. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hospitality. 29. Sunny is to happy as rainy is to sad. This is an example of what? A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Connotation. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 30. The vantage point from which a story is told. A) Juxtapostion. B) Allusion. C) Point of view. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Point of view. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesFigurative Language Quiz 1Figurative Language Quiz 2Figurative Language Quiz 3Figurative Language Quiz 4Figurative Language Quiz 5Figurative Language Quiz 6Figurative Language Quiz 7Figurative Language Quiz 8Figurative Language Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books