This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 10 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Steven boxes in the light-heavyweight division. A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 2. Identify the hyperbole in the following sentence: A) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. B) She ran like the wind. C) The book was interesting. D) He's as strong as an ox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. 3. My love for you is as deep as the ocean. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 4. The lively boat ran merrily over the waves. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 5. On a starry winter night in PortugalWhere the ocean kissed the southern shoreThere a dream I never thought would come to passCame and went like time spent through an hourglassthis is an example of??? A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 6. Which of the following is not an example of simile? A) He eats like a pig. B) She is as white as snow. C) Love is a battlefield. D) She acts like Maria Clara. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love is a battlefield. 7. The Moon carried her in its arms and rocked her to permanent sleep. What figure of speech was used here? A) Ellipsis. B) Metaphor. C) Euphemism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 8. What is the figure of speech called when there is a repetition of the same or letter at the beginning of the word? A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Simile. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 9. Identify the Figure of Speech from the following lines: ..... Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon-' A) Repetition, Personification. B) Metaphor, Personification. C) Alliteration, Metaphor. D) Personification, Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition, Personification. 10. Which of the following sentences show onomatopoeia? A) He opened the bottle with great force. B) The bottle opened with a fizz. C) Bhuvan opened the bottle with a loud noise. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The bottle opened with a fizz. 11. "The fat comedian is as plump as a pillow." is what figure of speech? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. What is the figure of speech used in the line "A happy life depends on the liver" ? A) Euphemism. B) Litotes. C) Pun. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 13. What type of figure of speech is present in this sentence?The alarm clock yells at me in the mornings. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 14. This is known as the dictionary definition of the figure of speech. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 15. Spirit of Beauty, how could you, whose radiance over brims the sky, stand hidden behind a candle's tiny flame? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Hyperbole. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 16. Ever-elusive Happiness, please be mine. A) Metonymy. B) Euphemism. C) Apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 17. What figure of speech is being asked? "Have you read Shakespeare? '' A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Metonymy. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 18. "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Antithesis. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 19. In the sweat of thy face shall though eat bread. A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 20. Our conversation seemed to go on for days. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 21. Irony is a figure of speech with the use of LIKE or AS. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 22. I am dying of thirst. A) SIMILE. B) METAPHOR. C) PERSONIFICATION. D) HYPERBOLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) HYPERBOLE. 23. My love for you is as wide as the universe, as deep as the ocean. A) SIMILE. B) METAPHOR. C) PERSONIFICATION. D) ALLITERATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SIMILE. 24. When you zip up a zipper the sound the zipper makes sounds like a zipper. A) Alliteration. B) Climax. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 25. The reading yesterday was a Shakespeare play because it was difficult to understand. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesFigures Of Speech Quiz 1Figures Of Speech Quiz 2Figures Of Speech Quiz 3Figures Of Speech Quiz 4Figures Of Speech Quiz 5Figures Of Speech Quiz 6Figures Of Speech Quiz 7Figures Of Speech Quiz 8Figures Of Speech Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books