This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 64 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 64 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Thunder grumbled and raindrops reported for duty. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 2. Harry is as blind as a bat without his glasses. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. Repetition of beginning word sounds A) Alliteration. B) Oxymoron. C) Irony. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. Leslie is still in the dark about her surprise Halloween birthday party. The idiom in this sentence means that Leslie A) (A) suspects that she will have a surprise party. B) (B) doesn't know about her surprise party,. C) C) is pretending she doesn't know about her party. D) (D) has planned her own surprise party. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) (B) doesn't know about her surprise party,. 5. Mrs. Souza cannot live without her morning cup of coffee. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 6. Language that appeals to the five senses and creates a picture for the reader. A) Imagery. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 7. Which of these is a hyperbole? A) They lived in a small cabin in the woods. B) The boy was taller than the Eiffel tower. C) Jackson was eating a bite-sized candy bar. D) The moon is overwhelmingly beautiful tonight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The boy was taller than the Eiffel tower. 8. The cup danced joyfully across the table. A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 9. I am so thirsty I could drink a lake! A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 10. Identify the figurative language technique below that means COMPARING 2 OBJECTS USING "LIKE" OR "AS" A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. Noah's smartphone is a window into the world. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 12. Having the same sound at the end of two or more words A) Couplet. B) Rhyme Pattern. C) Alliteration. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Pattern. 13. She was feeling under the weather. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 14. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 15. Compares two unlike things DIRECTLY A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 16. Two contradictory terms put together A) Simile. B) Oxymoron. C) Irony. D) Contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 17. The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow. What type of figurative language is this? A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 18. Identify the definition below that matches IDIOM. A) A word that sounds like its meaning. B) A play on words. C) Two or more words beginning with the same consonant sound in a sentence or line of poetry. D) A peculiar phrase that cannot be taken literally. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A peculiar phrase that cannot be taken literally. 19. Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally is? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 20. The cow yelled at the fly after it bit him A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Symbol. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 21. Words that resemble the sound they describe A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 22. What is idiom? A) A comparison between two items using like or as. B) A comparison between two items without using like or as. C) A figurative expression that would not make sense if taken literally. D) Words that stand for sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A figurative expression that would not make sense if taken literally. 23. What kind of figurative language is being used?Our feet squished in the mud. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 24. Victoria's pencil ran across her page as she wrote down all her ideas. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 25. She clattered and clanged as she washed the dishes. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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