This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 38 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."The soldiers swear loyalty to the crown." A) Synecdoche. B) Metonymy. C) Euphemism. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 2. My friend Joey is a clown. He makes everyone laugh at his jokes. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. She was the Venus of the party. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. Which figure of speech is used in the line "He heard his harsh harangue." ? A) Assonance. B) Euphemism. C) Alliteration. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 5. The wind whispers as it blows inside my ear. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. Sue shook her silky silver hair as the sun was setting. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Irony. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. A statement that might at first appear to be contradictory, but that may in fact contain some truth A) Paradox. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Euphemism. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 8. What do you call an old snowman?WATER! A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 9. And waves of shadow went over the wheat. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Alliteration. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 10. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:The water angrily flowed towards the sea. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 11. My teacher has eyes in the back of her head is an example of ..... (EVA) A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 12. Life is a barren field A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. O William, you should be living now to see all this. A) Personification. B) Apostrophe. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 14. "The health professionals are soldiers protecting us from our fight against the Covid 19 Pandemic." This is an example of what figure of speech? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. Which figure of speech is Shakespeare using?"The world's a stage" A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 16. "'I'm a lovely tree that loves to dance' said the tree" is a rhyme A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. The new set of officers are as busy as a bee. A) SIMILE. B) METAPHOR. C) PERSONIFICATION. D) HYPERBOLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SIMILE. 18. In the movie, "Toy Story", human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move but the audience is. A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 19. He doesn't always tell the truth, so I'd take what he says with a grain of salt. A) With some doubt. B) Without question. C) With anger. D) With other people's opinions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With some doubt. 20. The figure of speech in which the author makes an obvious exaggeration for emphasis or to create some other specific effect is ..... A) Simile. B) Metonymy. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 21. I'll see you long and dark as tunnels, bright as rainbows, playful as chestnutwind. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 22. The wind howled like a ..... as the storm raged. A) Kitten. B) Wounded animal. C) Hammer. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wounded animal. 23. She was as quiet as a mouse A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 24. Mary looked at the clock. Time was crawling. A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 25. Ito ay pagpapalit ng katangian ng isang tao sa mga walang buhay. A) Pagtutulad o Simile. B) Pagwawangis o Metapora. C) Pagmamalabis o Hyperbole. D) Pagsasatao o Personipikasyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pagsasatao o Personipikasyon. 26. What do you call an exaggerated statement used to heighten the effect? A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 27. Is a figure of language when words that start with the same sound (not just the same letter) are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 28. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Emily is as cold as ice" A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbaton. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 29. "The debate was a piece of cake." It is the example of Metaphor. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. He is as soft as concrete A) Irony. B) Antithesis. C) Antromorphism. D) None of the above. 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