This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 43 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Oink! A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 2. Which figurative language is shown below?"Her tears flowed like a river down her cheek?" A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 3. The message or lesson that the author wants you to learn from the story is called the A) Thesis. B) Summary. C) Theme. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 4. He slept like a log. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 5. The smell of the roses swiftly filled the air. This is an example of: A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 6. "You are the thunder, and I am the lightning, " is an example of which type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Chliche. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 7. "I tell her of my father's great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music." A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. The dolphins danced and played in the waves. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 9. Baby, you're a firework. Come on show em what you're worth. A) Similie. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. Which literary device is used in the following line?"The door creaked open, revealing a dark room." A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 11. My grandfather is so old he could have lived with the dinosaurs. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 12. Vivi gulped down the mountain dew A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 13. Which of the following sentences is a SIMILE? A) I saw a snake as I was walking to school this morning. B) The snow-covered roads were as slippery as soap. C) She was nervous as she walked to her class because she did not do her homework. D) I like pizza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The snow-covered roads were as slippery as soap. 14. Her eyes sparkled like a thousand diamonds in the sky. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 15. JAVIER THINKS HE IS THE CLASS CLOWN. A) PERSONIFICATION. B) ONOMATOPOEIA. C) SIMILIE. D) METAPHOR. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) METAPHOR. 16. A group of words established by meaning NOT by the individual words A) Repetition. B) Idiom. C) Colloquialism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 17. "Quack, quack, quack, " went the duck as he walked through the marsh. What type of figurative language is this? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 18. The black algae came up like a foamy monster.This sentence is an example of a ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Inference. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. It was so chilly outside that it caused the children's teeth to chatter. A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Pun. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 20. What type of figurative language is this??Ogres are like onions. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personifcation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 21. A polite phrase for something too blunt or unpleasant A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Euphemism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 22. What creates images in the mind of the reader? A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 23. Phrases that mean something different than what they say. This type of figurative language makes sense figuratively, but not literally. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 24. Hyperbole is: A) Giving non human objects human traits. B) Exaggeration for effect. C) A word that sounds like the sound it represents. D) A city in Holland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exaggeration for effect. 25. The big present is calling my name. A) Allusion. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 26. What type of figurative language is this??Together the Titans took to the Trojans. A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 27. Pick the type of figurative language that BEST fits the sentence:The man's beard was a rat's tail, long and mangled. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 28. What type of figurative language is used in the phrase 'Time is a thief'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 29. A comparison that does use like or as is a/an ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 30. In this mode of speech, the real meanings of the words used are different from the intended meanings. For eg., the child of the cobbler has no shoe. A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Satire. D) Pun. 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