This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 15 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. We learned that after Christmas break we would be hosting a student teacher. A) Pun. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 2. Click the button to take the picture. A) Onomatopeia. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopeia. 3. He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 4. What is the following sentence an example of:She sells sea shells by the sea shore. A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 5. Red Rover, Red Rover send Robin right over.This sentence is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. "I caught a fish as big as a house, " is an example of what literary device? A) Personification. B) A simile. C) A hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A hyperbole. 7. A simile compares two things using the words ..... or ..... A) Like; as. B) Am; are. C) Like; are. D) Am; as. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Like; as. 8. When a word sounds like its meaning. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 9. My dog ate so much he looked like a blimp. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personficiation. E) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 10. The sun smiled on me as I played kickball. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. "Rita, I have told you a million times to clean your room!" screamed her mother. Rita's room was a pigsty, with clothes strewn everywhere and empty granola bar wrappers littering the floor. ''I don't know how anyone can live like this!" her mother continued. What type of figurative language is used above? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 12. Giving a nonliving thing human qualities A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. Identify and categorised the following statements and say what are they? Similes (1), Metaphor (2), Idioms (3)1) Rose is like a rose.2) My car grumbled. 3) My mother grounded me for 100 days. A) (1), (2), (3). B) (1), (3), (2). C) (3), (2), (1). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (1), (2), (3). 14. A comparison of two unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. He had hairy hands he had hoped he'd handle. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 16. Name the figurative language: "he was so strong, he could chop the tree down with one swing of an axe." A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 17. "Last of them all my ram, the leader, cameweighted by wool and me with my meditations ..... 'Nohbdy will not get out alive, I swear.Oh, had you brain and voice to tellwhere he may be now, dodging my fury!Bashed by his hand and based on this rock wallhis brains would strew the floor, and I should haverest from the outrage Nohbdy worked upon me." ' A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Imagery. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 18. I can smell pizza from a mile away. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 19. The boy was standing like a statue on the sidewalk in everyone's way. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 20. "Homework is a breeze, " is an example of which type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Similie. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 21. What is the use of words and phrases in an unusual way? Writers often use this to make their writing more colorful, powerful, and interesting. Examples include simile, metaphor, irony, and personification. A) Text Features. B) Sensory Images. C) Figurative Language. D) Rhyming Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 22. Seriously funny, alone together, clearly confused, and original copies are all examples of this type of figurative language: A) Idiom. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 23. "The mammoth Polyphemus roared in answer:'Nohbdy, Nhbdy's tricked me. Nohbdy's ruined me!" ' A) Dramatic Irony. B) Epithet. C) Verbal Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal Irony. 24. Peter laughs like a hyena is an example of metaphor. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 25. "The sun is a golden ball" A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. 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