This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 50 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 50 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What technique is being used in the following passage:My brother is a clown. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. What is the superlative form of:cold A) Coldest. B) The coldest. C) Colder. D) The colder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The coldest. 3. Read the sentence. Which type of figurative language is this?Zether was a great white shark. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 4. The baby's tears were a flowing river A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. The tall girl stood out like a sore thumb. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 6. TR's a beast on the football field. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. What type of figurative language is shown?The runner ran like a cheetah in the race. A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 8. The trees danced in the window. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 9. When you give human-like qualities to something that is not human A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. What is a sound device that imitates the natural sound of a thing? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 11. Which literary device is used in the following line?"He's running faster than the wind" A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 12. ''Ouch!" Karina yelped as she sat down in math class. ''What happened?" her friend Gabby asked. "The desk stabbed me, " Karina responded, rubbing her leg.What type of figurative language is used above? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. The stocking was exploding with presents. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 14. Before the lesson started, the teacher checked the attendance. A) Literal. B) Figurative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal. 15. What is the emotional meaning of a word called? A) Connotation. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 16. What figurative language uses repeating letters or sounds? A) Similie. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopeia. D) Alliteration. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 17. The police station was robbed. A) Irony. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Parallel Structure. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 18. Kylie is a ray of sunshine. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?It took me a hundred years to finish all of my homework last night. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 20. Her gown sparkled like a diamond. A) Simile. B) Metaohor. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 21. What is it called when a reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, artistic, or literary significance is made in another piece of writing? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Allusion. D) Illusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 22. "My life is a dream of wonders" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 23. Choose the figurative language used in the sentence." You snore louder than the freight train! '' A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 24. This sentence is an example of what: "The teenager is as hungry as a wolf." A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 25. What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?Boom! The fireworks cracked above in the sky to celebrate the Fourth of July. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. 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