This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Red Rover, Red Rover send Robin right over. (a) A) Hyperbole. B) A. alliteration. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. alliteration. 2. When two words right beside each other are opposites A) Understatement. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 3. Makes a comparison using the words "like" or "as" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 4. Novels, short stories, magazine and newspaper articles can all be forms of creative writing. (TRUE or FALSE?) A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. The smoke was cotton balls billowing from the chimney. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Proverb/adage. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. She soothed her secret sorrow. Choose the best answer:What figurative language device is being used in this sentence? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 7. The Sunset looked like fire. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 8. "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul" is an example of ..... A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) An allusion. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A metaphor. 9. My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. The wind howled in the night while the lightning danced across the sky.What does this figurative language mean above? A) There were clear skies at night. B) There was a storm at night. C) There were a lot of clouds. D) There were animals howling at night. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There was a storm at night. 11. It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets! A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 12. An analogy is a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way. Choose the one example of an analogy. A) That's as Useful as Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic. B) Life is never about winning, it's about the friends you make along the way. C) Be the change that you wish to see in the world. D) No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That's as Useful as Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic. 13. What does it mean if someone says "I've been waiting in line for a hundred years." A) I haven't been waiting long. B) I've been waiting, but don't mind. C) I've been here for a short while. D) I've been here a long time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I've been here a long time. 14. You are a ray of sunshine! is an example of: A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 15. "We had to wait forever!" is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 16. The snow is a white blanket.This is an example of: A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. A word form of a sound A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Onomatopoeia. 18. "Her voice was music to my ears" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 19. An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. They are overused expressions. A) Idiom. B) Mood. C) Allusion. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 20. An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work, (literary, biblical, and mythological). A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 21. Which is an example of an oxymoron? A) Pretty ugly. B) Extreme laughter. C) Out of the blue. D) Leap of faith. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pretty ugly. 22. Christmas cookies are my diet's Achilles heel. A) Pun. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 23. Non-human things are given human traits in this type of figurative language. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 24. Which sentence contains an example of an ONOMATOPOEIA? A) My heart has been skipping around in my chest since I saw her. B) Billy murmured sweet-nothings in Janet's ear. C) Love is a chocolate fountain that never runs out!. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Billy murmured sweet-nothings in Janet's ear. 25. What does the idiom "barking up the wrong tree" mean? A) Having a picnic in the woods. B) Chasing after the right opportunity. C) Pursuing an incorrect course of action. D) Tending to a garden with many trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pursuing an incorrect course of action. Next →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesFigurative Language Quiz 2Figurative Language Quiz 3Figurative Language Quiz 4Figurative Language Quiz 5Figurative Language Quiz 6Figurative Language Quiz 7Figurative Language Quiz 8Figurative Language Quiz 9Figurative Language Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books