This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 30 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of figurative language is being used? When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains. A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. Sally Sold Seashells by the Seashore A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 3. Underneath my feet, the dry leaves sounded like crackling fire. This sentence contains A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) A hyperbole. D) An idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A simile. 4. Which of the following is the correct meaning for this statement?The cat sat in the chair like a king overlooking his kingdom. A) The cat's position in the castle is compared to that of a king who sits in the King's chair. B) The cat's sitting posture is compared to that of a king who relaxes in a special chair that is reserved for him and not any other person in the kingdom. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The cat's sitting posture is compared to that of a king who relaxes in a special chair that is reserved for him and not any other person in the kingdom. 5. Ted took the toaster to Allison's on Tuesday. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 6. I am so hungry, I could eat a horse right now. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. What is the meaning of the following statement?The soft snow was like a blanket covering everything. A) It was a clear, sunny day. B) There was snow covering everything. C) When it is cold I need a blanket outside. D) My blanket feels like snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There was snow covering everything. 8. The raindrops played a beautiful song on the rooftop. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. Two figures of speech that involve comparisons are: A) Simile and hyperbole. B) Metaphor and oxymoron. C) Pun and paradox. D) Simile and metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile and metaphor. 10. They packed a picnic when they were going to Point Beach. A) Onomatopeia. B) Idiom. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 11. The keychain is hanging and scratching on the surface of my bag A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 12. FIGURATIVE or LITERALThe water was a rainbow A) Figurative language. B) Literal meaning. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 13. The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. What is an implied comparison without signal words; comparing one thing to another? A) Idiom. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 15. What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?The heater yelled as it was turned on during the first winter of the year A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. "When the young Dawn with fingertips of roselit up the world, the Cyclops built a fireand milked his handsome ewes, all in due order." A) Epithet. B) Personification. C) Situational irony. D) Alter ego. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 17. Which object is this sentence describing?"The cratered ball shone in the night sky" A) Sun. B) Earth. C) Moon. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moon. 18. Time marches on. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 19. What figurative language is the sentence below?She is as pretty as a flower. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. A ..... is a great exaggeration used to emphasize a point, and is used for expressive or comic effect. Example: "I have a ton of chores to do." A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 21. The snake HISSED in the bushes. A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 22. "Life is a journey" is an example of what? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 23. I have a million things to do today. A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 24. Their family was a patchwork quilt of diversity. Each adopted child added something beautiful to the whole A) Like a quilt the family was old an ragged. B) Their family had old fashioned traditions like a patchwork quilt. C) Like a quilt stitched together of many fabrixcs, the family had children who were different living together as siblings. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Like a quilt stitched together of many fabrixcs, the family had children who were different living together as siblings. 25. Choose the sentence that contains alliteration below. A) Johnny was as mad as a hornet. B) Mom whispered like a breeze in my ear. C) The tiny ducks took a dip during the day. D) None of the above. 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