Figurative Language Quiz 25 (25 MCQs)

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1. He has been walking for days and days, when he has only been walking for 5 minutes is an example of:
2. Silly sally sang a silly summer song
3. What type of figurative language is shown?Tracy was really feeling down in the dumps.
4. She is as pretty as a rose.
5. Idiom for 'to take care of or watch carefully'
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?
7. I had to hurry home to help cook ham for dinner
8. The runner in the fifth lane is a snail and a turtle combined!
9. She was as smart as an owl.
10. The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
11. The trees were showing off their finest red and gold attire. This sentence illustrates the use of
12. Now kneel, noble knight, on your knobby knees.This is an example of?
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?
14. The carrots made a crunch as the reindeer indulged.
15. The marshmallows were as fluffy as clouds.
16. What is the primary purpose of using alliteration in poetry?
17. A group of lines in a poemis called
18. What does the metaphor mean in the sentence below?Mandy is a night owl.
19. What uses symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense.
20. What is the meaning of the idiom "I can't stop smiling. I've been on cloud nine all day." ?
21. Is giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to inanimate (not living) objects
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?
23. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?"The girl was a kite, floating above the confusion around her."
24. Which of the following correctly identifies a symbol?
25. Which is an example of a metaphor?