Figurative Language Quiz 2 (25 MCQs)

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1. He is a wall when he plays linebacker.
2. My mother says that my brother and I fight like cats and dogs
3. I can't go tonight; I have a million things to do. What type of figurative language is this?
4. My alarm clock screams at me every morning at 4 A.M.
5. The CEO was really a wolf in sheep's ..... (idiom)
6. The bee buzzed in my ear and scared me.
7. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called .....
8. The abandoned well is as dry as a bone
9. You have a smile that lights up the room is an example of what type of figurative language
10. HE is a ROCKET when he races. This is an example of:
11. Name the figurative language: "she was as happy as a clam when she won the contest."
12. I shivered in the storm for 200 years.
13. I am the happiest person in the on earth is an example of what type of figurative language?
14. Santa hummed a tune in his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
15. Explain the meaning of the simile below.The road was as flat as a pancake.
16. What is the meaning of the poem below? 'Hope' is the thing with feathers-That perches in the soul-And sings the tune without the words-And never stops-at all
17. Choose the type of figurative language used in the following sentence:Charming children chat in the corner. (a)
18. Which type of figurative language uses like or as to compare two unlike things?
19. When an author compares two things using the words like or as, which type of figurative language are they using?
20. The wind whispered softly outside the open window.
21. Is the overall feeling a reader gets when reading a story. Tone creates mood.
22. What two words are being compared in the simile below?The library was as quiet as a graveyard.
23. When Romeo describes how family love has caused hatred for the opposite family, he says "O loving hate ..... O heavy lightness, serious vanity ..... feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health" (I.i.174-178). All of these are examples of what literary device?
24. She was as white as a ghost when she had the flu.
25. What is the meaning of the following statement?Hold your horses!