This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 36 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 36 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Imagery is ..... A) Representing a thing or idea as a person in art, literature. B) Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical senses. C) An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole. D) A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical senses. 2. Give me a handThis is an example of an ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 3. His words are a beam of light during these dark times. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. His words cut like knives. Why would he say such horrible things? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. The river spills over rocks and whispers to me-Kawishiwee ..... Kawishiwee-and rushes on to anywhere.This is an example of: A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 6. Which word means to compare two different things but you suggest that they are the same thing. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 7. Identify the figurative language used in the sentence:'The classroom was a zoo.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. The snake slithered across the sandy beach. A) Idiom. B) Onomatopeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 9. I've been waiting in line for a hundred years. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 10. What figurative device uses a number of words with the same first consonant sound. A) Pun. B) Alliteration. C) Irony. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 11. Which sentence is an example of simile? A) You came in as a lump of clay, a blank canvas, a slab of marble. B) That's my word. C) When it's your turn in the chair, you stand at attention and forget about who you were when you walked through the door. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You came in as a lump of clay, a blank canvas, a slab of marble. 12. This type of figurative language occurs when you refer to something outside of the text (like if you reference a mythical creature in your short story) A) Idiom. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 13. The feeling created in the reader through word choice. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Point of View. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 14. Nila briefly brushed the baby's hair. This sentence uses ..... A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. You're a couch potato. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. Mr. Kern is Father Time because of how old he is. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. Thud, went the sleigh as it landed on our roof. A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alleritation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 18. A comparison of two unlike things stating that one thing IS the other. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 19. What kind of figurative language is being used?5th grade is a breeze for some people. For others, it's a giant hurricane. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 20. A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.Uses LIKE or AS. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 21. A type of personification that gives animal or non-human things human characteristics. A) Anthropomorphism. B) Hyperbole. C) Undertatement. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthropomorphism. 22. She is walking on eggshells means ..... A) She is learning how to walk. B) She is in the chicken coop. C) She is trying not to upset anyone. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She is trying not to upset anyone. 23. Which type of figurative language uses the words LIKE or AS? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 24. The Christmas alphabet has noel. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Pun. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 25. The thunder roared and the lightning cracked during the storm.What type of figurative language is this? A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. ← 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