This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 9 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I'm a rocket. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. Tell whether the example is a simile or metaphor.Ben is a walking dictionary. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. Explain the meaning of the personification below.It's raining cats and dogs! A) Cats and dogs are crying. B) Cats and dogs are falling out of the sky. C) It's raining a little bit. D) The sky is pouring down rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The sky is pouring down rain. 4. ''Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary, "-Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. ..... a figure of speech in which two a things are compared, NOT using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. Cats can't couldn't care less. A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 7. This sentence is an example of what: "You are my knight in shining armor." A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 8. 7th grade is a breeze for some people. For others, it's a giant earthquake. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 9. What is an example of a simile?The snow kissed the ground;Like a child to his mother, Returned home at last A) Like a child. B) To his mother. C) Returned home. D) The snow kissed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Like a child. 10. An expression that doesn't exactly mean what the words say A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Proverb/adage. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 11. Her eyes are as sparkly as a diamond is a A) Smilie. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smilie. 12. The ornament broken into a million pieces as it hit the floor. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 13. "Silver bells! ..... How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night." This sentence includes what figurative language device? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 14. The lightweight fighter lost so much weight, he looked as thin as a rail. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. The kite drank the wind and laughed across the sky. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 16. Random order ..... Act naturally ..... Deafening silence ..... A) Idiom. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 17. It is raining cats and dogs. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 18. I can smell my mother's cooking from a mile away. A) SIMILE. B) PERSONIFICATION. C) HYPERBOLE. D) ONOMATOPOEIA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) HYPERBOLE. 19. Which sentence contains an example of a PERSONIFICATION? A) Your love is like a favorite blanket that keeps me safe and warm. B) My heart is singing a love song for you. C) I'm yours until the end of time. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My heart is singing a love song for you. 20. Each letter of a word written vertically is given a word or phrase to describe a topic A) Haiku. B) Acrostic. C) Cinquain. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic. 21. Repetition of beginning sounds in words A) Simile. B) Onomatopeia. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 22. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmthand green and life. It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmthuntil it sang of joyand love and life.How many stanzas are there in the poem above? A) 1. B) 2. C) 4. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 23. What kind of figurative language is being used?She sells sea shells by the sea shore. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 24. My alarm clock screams at me every morning at 6:00 A.M. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 25. What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?The students are as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. ← 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 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books