This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 51 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 51 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A comparison that does not use like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. Don't get Oden angry, or he'll swell up and turn green, like the Hulk. A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 3. Identify the figure of speech:Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. Nily briefly brushed the baby's hair. This sentence uses: A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. What is a proverb? A) Words or phrases that have different meanings than what the words say. B) Short well-known saying stating a general truth or piece of advice. C) Short common saying that tends to be old, known for decades/centuries. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short well-known saying stating a general truth or piece of advice. 6. Analyze the tone of the passage. How does the author's word choice contribute to it? A) The tone is humorous and lighthearted. B) The tone is aggressive and confrontational. C) The tone is reflective and analytical. D) The tone is dismissive and uninterested. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tone is reflective and analytical. 7. A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true. A) Figures of Speech. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figures of Speech. 8. My hair is crazy like Medusa in the morning! A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 9. Personification is when you give an idea/thing ..... qualities. A) Animal. B) Nice. C) Human. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human. 10. The dog laughed at the dancing cat! A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. Oink! A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 12. Which figurative language is shown below?"Her tears flowed like a river down her cheek?" A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 13. The message or lesson that the author wants you to learn from the story is called the A) Thesis. B) Summary. C) Theme. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 14. He slept like a log. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. The smell of the roses swiftly filled the air. This is an example of: A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 16. "You are the thunder, and I am the lightning, " is an example of which type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Chliche. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. "I tell her of my father's great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music." A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. The dolphins danced and played in the waves. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. Baby, you're a firework. Come on show em what you're worth. A) Similie. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 20. Which literary device is used in the following line?"The door creaked open, revealing a dark room." A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 21. My grandfather is so old he could have lived with the dinosaurs. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 22. Vivi gulped down the mountain dew A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 23. Which of the following sentences is a SIMILE? A) I saw a snake as I was walking to school this morning. B) The snow-covered roads were as slippery as soap. C) She was nervous as she walked to her class because she did not do her homework. D) I like pizza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The snow-covered roads were as slippery as soap. 24. Her eyes sparkled like a thousand diamonds in the sky. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 25. JAVIER THINKS HE IS THE CLASS CLOWN. A) PERSONIFICATION. B) ONOMATOPOEIA. C) SIMILIE. D) METAPHOR. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) METAPHOR. ← 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