This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 32 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Oh no! It's starting to rain. Where are you, Mister Sun? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Apostrophe. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 2. "This is a nightmare, " Tanya said. "We're stranded in strange city with no money."What does the metaphor mean? A) Tanya is having a bad dream. B) Tanya is in a frightening situation. C) Tanya is on vacation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tanya is in a frightening situation. 3. Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.Kristen's brother is the coolest because he can burp the alphabet. A) Brother. B) Alphabet. C) Kristen. D) Burp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burp. 4. A polite or indirect expression that is used to de-emphasize an unpleasant topic A) Euphemism. B) Oxymoron. C) Paradox. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 5. The wind whispered the rumors of the forest. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 6. "This is the beginning of an end." is an example of ..... A) Paradox. B) Antithesis. C) Oxymoron. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 7. What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:I saw the coolest concert last night. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 8. I'll watch you word, rise and dance and spin A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. Little Lily was the loveliest lady I saw in Longshore. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 10. I kicked the soccer ball so hard it screamed all the way into the goal. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. A rhetorical figure that intentionally deviates from the ordinary language. A) Sensory Images. B) Figures of Speech. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figures of Speech. 12. What is an exaggeration used to make or prove a point? A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Alliteration. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 13. Of air that is everywhere our own. A) Tautology. B) Hyperbole. C) Synecdoche. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 14. Hyperbole is for exaggeration. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 15. The aesthetically-challenged man will undergo cosmetic surgery. A) Metonymy. B) Euphemism. C) Apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 16. Choose the Figure of speech used in the following sentence."The boy fell into the lake with a splash." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 17. These parts of speech uses words or phrases to contradict themselves. A) Simile/metaphor. B) Oxymoron/paradox. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron/paradox. 18. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Megan made mellow music with her new microphone" A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 19. "How nice!" she said, when I told her I had to work all weekend. A) Apostrophe. B) Metonymy. C) Synecdoche. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal irony. 20. The thick white blanket lay on the warm Earth is an example of which figure of speech. A) Hypothesis. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyper nite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 21. It is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to an object, an animal or an idea. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 22. Meow, where's my milk, cried the cat is an example of? A) Litotes. B) Simile. C) Anticlimax. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 23. Let's call it a day. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 24. Which two figures of speech involve comparisons? (REM) A) Simile & Metaphor. B) Hyperbole & Simile. C) Personification & Idiom. D) Alliteration & Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile & Metaphor. 25. My mom has a green thumb. A) Apostrophe. B) Metonymy. C) Synecdoche. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 26. Butter bakes better biscuits is an example of? A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 27. What kind of figure of speech is an opposite of what you mean? A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 28. "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." (Identify the figure of speech) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 29. This figures of speech give human characteristic to non human entities. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 30. Her face can launch a thousand ships. A) Smile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. 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