This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies. A) Polysyndeton. B) Chiasmus. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 2. Your mom gave you just enough money to buy a slice of pizza. You are so excited to eat it ..... then it falls cheese first on the ground. A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 3. The rustling leaves outside my window kept me awake. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 4. She was fairly sure that life was a fashion show. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor,. D) , personification,. E) , hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor,. 5. The truth is honey, which is bitter. A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Verbal Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 6. I would forgive you when pigs fly. A) Litotes. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 7. Betty blanched and baked before barbecuing. A) Assonance. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. If I can't buy that perfect prom dress, I'll die! A) Hyperbole. B) Pun. C) Irony. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 9. Can fish swim? Can birds fly? A) Polysyndeton. B) Alliteration. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Question. 10. This homework is a piece of cake that can't be possibly finished today. A) HYPERBOLE. B) EUPHEMISM. C) METONYMY. D) IRONY. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) IRONY. 11. Attribution of human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects or abstractions in order to make a narration more interesting and lively A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 12. Charles Shively, 94, passed away at home and went to be with the lord on April 22 2004, from natural causes. A) Synecdoche. B) Euphemism. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 13. "The students kept their eyes, ears and hearts wide open all year round despite academic challenges." This is an example of what figure of speech? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 14. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?" is an example of A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Personfication. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. What is a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. Silly sally sat softly is an example of which figure of speech? A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Tongue Twister. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. The boat was tossed like a cork on the waves. A) Simile. B) Assonance. C) Oxymoron. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. Figures of speech mean exactly what the words say. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. What figure of speech is used in the phrase 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 20. I'm drowning in a sea of grief. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 21. The sentences below are examples of Metaphor, EXCEPT. A) You are an angel. B) Dexter swims like a fish. C) Her diary was her bestfriend. D) Chris is a walking encyclopedia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dexter swims like a fish. 22. Assonance is the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllable. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Define personification: A) It gives a human characteristic to a non-living or inanimate object. B) It is a type of metaphor. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 24. God's love for us is as deep as the ocean. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 25. ROAR! This is an example of which figure of speech? A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Onomatopia. D) Alliteration. 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