This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 27 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The moon smiled at the earth. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 2. He was a car speeding through the streets is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. "In a smithy one sees a white-hot axehead or an adzeplunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam ..... the way they make soft iron hale and hard ..... just so that eyeball hissed around the spike." A) Imagery. B) Epic Simile. C) Allusion. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic Simile. 4. She sang of his love forever A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 5. Using the same consonant sound throughout the sentence is ..... A) Alliteratioin. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteratioin. 6. What type of figurative language is being used in the quote?"Nick's nephew needed new notebooks." A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 7. Outrageous exaggeration made to emphasize a point. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 8. The little road says, Go, The little house says, Stay A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?If Francis wins the lottery tonight, I'll eat my hat. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 10. What is the definition of metaphor? A) Defined as a word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing. B) A figure of speech that compares two unlike things and uses the words "like" or "as" and they are commonly used in everyday communication. C) A statement that compares two things that are not alike. D) A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice-versa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A statement that compares two things that are not alike. 11. The typical teenage boy's room is a disaster area. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Proverb/adage. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Which of the following is an example of METAPHOR? A) The soldier was as brave as a lion. B) Her voice is music to my ears. C) Her stomach complained loudly after she ate the spicy enchiladas. D) Your suitcase weighs a ton!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her voice is music to my ears. 13. The flute sang out beautifully during the concert. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. "You are a star" A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. Define:Hyperbole A) Exaggeration for effect. B) Comparison of two or more things using "like" , "as" , "than" , or "resembles". C) I do not know. D) A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular place or group of people. E) Comparison of two or more things not using "like" or "as". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exaggeration for effect. 16. The fest was a long never-ending marathon. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 17. An exaggerated expression A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 18. What is an understatement? A) A comparison using "like" or "as" . B) A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics. C) A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is. D) An expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A statement that creter humor by saying something less significant than it is. 19. BANGis an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 20. 'She sang of his love forever.' is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 21. "strategist Odysseus""Pallas Athena" A) Irony. B) Imagery. C) Alter Ego. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alter Ego. 22. The pillow was like a marshmallow, puffy and soft A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 23. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse! What is this an example of? A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Allieration. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 24. My sister is as slow as molasses in the mornings.The sentence is an example of A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Methphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 25. The quote from the popular Owl City song, "You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep, " is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. ← 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