This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 22 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Showing opposites A) Irony. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Biblical Allusion. D) Contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contrast. 2. This image along with the short poem is a ..... d A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) D. simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D. simile. 3. Tell whether the example is a simile or metaphor.She swims like a fish. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. A comparison between two unlike things, using words such as LIKE, AS, RESEMBLES, or THAN. A) Figures of Speech. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Simile. 5. A poem that does not rhyme is a A) Meter. B) Stanza. C) Free verse. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 6. When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work. A) Oxymoron. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 7. The dropped package skidded like an Olympic bobsled across the icy sidewalk.What two things are being compared in this sentence's simile? A) The package and the sidewalk. B) The Olympics and the icy sidewalk. C) The movement of the dropped package and a bobsled. D) The way the package was dropped and the Olympics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The movement of the dropped package and a bobsled. 8. Which of the following is NOT an example of personification? A) The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition. B) The avalanche devoured anything standing in its way. C) The camera loves her. D) She smelled like the sweetest rose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She smelled like the sweetest rose. 9. The sunflowers nodded in the wind. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 10. Chase counted his coins and crossed the street to the bank. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 11. She's as tiny as a mouse. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 12. This type of figurative language gives human qualities to objects or animals. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true is which type of figurative language? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 14. "Bleep, bleep, bleep, " Chase's alarm clock woke him out of his sleep. A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 15. "A deep wood grew outside, with summer leavesof alder and black poplar, pungent cypress.Ornate birds here rested their stretched wings ..... horned owls, falcons, cormorants ..... long-tonguedbeachcombing birds, and followers of the sea." A) Allusion. B) Epic simile. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 16. Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?"I have a million papers to grade!" exclaimed the English teacher. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 17. Occurs when one thing stands for or represents something else. A) Allusion. B) Symbolism. C) Mood. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 18. Define:Irony A) When a words pronunciation imitates its sound. B) When the outcome of a situation is the exact opposite of what was expected. C) Giving human traits or characteristics to an object or idea. D) Writing that uses the five senses to create "pictures". E) I do not know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When the outcome of a situation is the exact opposite of what was expected. 19. Which of the following is alliteration. A) Peter is a good boy. B) Sally loves to go to the beach. C) Poppy platypuses pick prickly pineapples. D) He sells apples at the farmer's market. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poppy platypuses pick prickly pineapples. 20. I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 21. A group of lines in a poem, separated by space is ..... A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Symbolism. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 22. The road was as flat as a pancake.What figurative language is being used in the sentence? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 23. "Bake a big cake with butter and bring it to the birthday bash" A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 24. Her head was spinning from all of the new information. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personifcation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 25. Ben brought barrels of bait to Big Lake for bass fishing. What type of figurative language is in this sentence? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. ← 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