This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 31 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figurative language that uses statements that contradicts itself. A) Idiom. B) Irony. C) Paradox. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 2. Imagery is language that creates a picture. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. "This homework is a breeze" means ..... A) The homework had a ton of questions. B) The homework was challenging. C) There aren't a lot of questions. D) The homework was very easy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The homework was very easy. 4. Mark is a cheetah, running through the wild. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. What is being compared in the simile below?"Her tears flowed like a river down her cheek?" A) Flowed, River. B) Tears, Cheeks. C) Tears, River. D) Her, River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tears, River. 6. My homework pile is a mile high.This sentence is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. Which sentence contains a pun? A) The man zipped around the corner. B) Reading on the beach can make you well red. C) Her voice was the most beautful music. D) The stars winked at me that night. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reading on the beach can make you well red. 8. This sentence is an example of what: "I have a ton of homework." A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 9. Which type of figurative language is used in the following Beatles song, "Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter?" A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 10. "Achooo" is an example of what? A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 11. A picture is worth a thousand words.What does this idiom mean? A) The picture is expensive. B) A picture can have words. C) If you have a thousand dollars you can get a picture. D) Pictures can give more details than words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pictures can give more details than words. 12. Jayla was so tired she decided to hit the hay. What type of figurative language is this? A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 13. This type of figurative language compares things WITHOUT using like or as. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 14. The two literary devices that compare two things to each other are ..... and ..... A) Allusion; metaphor. B) Hyperbole; allusion. C) Simile; hyperbole. D) Simile; metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile; metaphor. 15. The trees dropped their leaves and rested. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. The west wind dances down the road. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 17. ..... is when you give human-like qualities to something that is not human. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 18. My daughter used every candy cane ever made to decorate her gingerbread house. A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 19. What technique is being used in the following passage:The moon was a silver ship sailing through the sea. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. The phrase "whale Road" is a kenning referring to ..... A) The sea. B) The interstate. C) A subway station. D) Sea World. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sea. 21. Her purse weighs a ton. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personficiation. E) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 22. Means extreme exaggeration A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 23. Baby Brittany bawled because her blue balloon burst. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. E) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 24. What type of figurative language is this??I sat with my cat while wearing a hat. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 25. Poems are meant to be read A) Silently. B) Aloud. C) Repeatedly. D) In lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aloud. ← 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