This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 38 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This type of figurative language is an expression or phrase that does not mean exactly what it says. Hint:For example, it may be raining cats and dogs today. A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 2. Katie could sleep for a year; she is so tired! A) Hyperbole. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 3. She sings like an angelis an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 4. Find an example of alliteration in the text. What effect does it have? A) Sally sells seashells by the seashore. B) "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of alliteration. C) How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?. D) Betty Botter bought some butter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of alliteration. 5. What is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated A) Pun. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 6. Choose the type of figurative language used in the following sentence:Tom is as slow as a turtle. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 7. The clouds are AS white AS snow. This is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personfication. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. 'How sweet the sobbing violin!' is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. There was an ear-splitting silence in the auditorium filled with people. What type of figurative language is in this sentence? A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Idiom. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 10. Don't be a stick in the mud! A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 11. What does the following sentence really mean?An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A) If you eat right, you won't need to go to the doctor as often. B) You should bring apples to the doctor's office with you. C) Doctors are afraid of apples. D) You should eat nothing but apples every day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If you eat right, you won't need to go to the doctor as often. 12. When I was at Six Flags, I waited in line for years.What figurative speech is this? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 13. I have so much homework my bookbag weighs a million pounds.Which figurative language is this? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 14. Which is NOT an example of a simile? A) Her heart is like gold. B) Life is a rollercoaster. C) He is as busy as a bee. D) He is as light as a feather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life is a rollercoaster. 15. I haven't seen you in forever! A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 16. What do you call the message the poet wants to give to the reader? A) Form. B) Theme. C) Details. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 17. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is it?Her smile was a bright ray of sunshine. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 18. Two lines of poetry, one after the other, that rhyme and are of the same length and rhythm. A) Simile. B) Free Verse. C) Rhyme Pattern. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 19. What is the type of imagery that tickles the reader's sense of touch? A) Gustatory. B) Olfactory. C) Auditory. D) Tactile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tactile. 20. The road to my school is thousands of miles long.What does this figurative language mean? A) The school is on a road. B) The road is very long. C) The school is thousands of miles long. D) There are thousands of ways to get to the school. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The road is very long. 21. A word or phrase that means something different than its literal or actual meaning. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 22. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 23. What does the personification mean in the sentence below?The angry wind robbed the poor tree of its last few leaves. A) Two angry robbers shook off leaves during a storm. B) An angry tree shook off its leaves during a windy day. C) Strong wind blew leaves off of a tree. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strong wind blew leaves off of a tree. 24. An expression that means something more than the literal definition A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 25. That place is a zoo A) Verb. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Idiom. 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