This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 26 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define Hyperbole A) Sound words. B) A play on words to produce a humorous effect. C) An extreme exaggeration. D) A comparison of two dissimilar items without using like, as, or than. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An extreme exaggeration. 2. The crafty crocodile invited the lazy lion to his party. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 3. That pumpkin weighs a million pounds! A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 4. What is the following sentence an example of:You're toast! A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Pun. D) Proverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. Who let the cat out of the bag by telling the other students that we were having a party? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Proverb or adage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 6. Talking animals are an example of what type of figurative language? A) Oxymoron. B) Personification. C) Cliche. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 7. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?Emily swam like a dolphin in the pool. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. Giving human qualities to something non-human A) Metpahor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 9. What type of figurative language is shown?Her eyes were as blue as the ocean. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. Which literary device is used in the following line from Annabel Lee? "And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes" A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.What figure of speech is this? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 12. Lovingly, she stroked the baby's velvety skin. A) Very thick. B) Very soft. C) Very noisy. D) Disappeared. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Very soft. 13. Bob Ross expresses many feelings through his paintings. A) Literal. B) Figurative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal. 14. Which sentence below uses alliteration? A) I wonder if Dana is sleeping. B) Paul planted petunias in the garden. C) Cheese is one of my favorite things to eat. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paul planted petunias in the garden. 15. His smile is as creepy as a pumpkin on Halloween. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of what kind of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 17. Gaslights bloomed on the new streetslike flowers, and lit with a "Pop!" at night.This has examples of: A) Simile and onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor and simile. C) Personification and simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile and onomatopoeia. 18. It's when the beginning consonant sound repeats A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 19. Giving non-human objects human like qualities is called ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. Which type of figurative language is below?The soccer player was a bolt of lightning zooming across the field. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 21. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 22. What does it really mean: "She was pulling my leg." A) She grabbed my leg and tugged on it. B) She hurt my leg. C) She was joking with me. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was joking with me. 23. Words that are used within a poem repeatedly to express a certain point A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Stanza. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 24. Which of the following is the best example of specific diction? A) "laughed". B) "monstropolous". C) "beginning". D) "darkness". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "monstropolous". 25. An expression that means something other than the usual meaning of the words A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. ← 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