This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 25 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. He has been walking for days and days, when he has only been walking for 5 minutes is an example of: A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Cliche. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 2. Silly sally sang a silly summer song A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 3. What type of figurative language is shown?Tracy was really feeling down in the dumps. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 4. She is as pretty as a rose. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 5. Idiom for 'to take care of or watch carefully' A) Keep and eye on. B) To hear something on the grapevine. C) Over the top. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keep and eye on. 6. I cringed at the thought of the haunted old mansion at the end of my street. I couldn't believe we had moved to this eerie neighborhood. "Who in their right mind would move to a town like this?" I grumbled. What is the POV? A) Second person. B) Third person. C) First person. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) First person. 7. I had to hurry home to help cook ham for dinner A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. The runner in the fifth lane is a snail and a turtle combined! A) Literal. B) Figurative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative. 9. She was as smart as an owl. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 11. The trees were showing off their finest red and gold attire. This sentence illustrates the use of A) A simile. B) A hyperbole. C) A metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 12. Now kneel, noble knight, on your knobby knees.This is an example of? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 13. Adrian couldn't wait to get to lunch. He knew his mom had packed his favorite chocolate chip cookie as a special treat for making a 100 on his math test. By the time he got to the cafeteria and opened up his lunchbox, he could hear that cookie calling his name! What type of figurative language is used above? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. The carrots made a crunch as the reindeer indulged. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 15. The marshmallows were as fluffy as clouds. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personifcation. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. What is the primary purpose of using alliteration in poetry? A) To create a musical effect. B) To compare two unlike things. C) To exaggerate for emphasis. D) To imitate sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To create a musical effect. 17. A group of lines in a poemis called A) Form. B) Paragraph. C) Line-break. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 18. What does the metaphor mean in the sentence below?Mandy is a night owl. A) Mandy makes weird noises. B) Mandy stays up late. C) Mandy has a night light. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandy stays up late. 19. What uses symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense. A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Theme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 20. What is the meaning of the idiom "I can't stop smiling. I've been on cloud nine all day." ? A) You are really high. B) You feel joyful. C) Clouds are white. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You feel joyful. 21. Is giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to inanimate (not living) objects A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 22. Jill could not shake the feeling that Jack made a deliberate mistake to ensure that their project took more time. What figurative language device is being used in the sentence above? A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) Pun. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 23. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?"The girl was a kite, floating above the confusion around her." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 24. Which of the following correctly identifies a symbol? A) "Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song". B) "Ah'm hard of understanding at times". C) "Mrs. Sumpkins snorted violently and sucked her teeth". D) "It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road They sat in judgment". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road They sat in judgment". 25. Which is an example of a metaphor? A) She is like a bear in the morning-grumpy and cruel. B) The flower stretched her hand out to the sun, yearning for its' rays. C) Her hair was silk. D) Buzz, Hiss, Woof. 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