This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 15 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Charlie preferred to eat chocolate chewey cheese flavoured ice-cream. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 2. What figure of speech is described as the usage of exaggerated terms in order to emphasize or heighten the effect of something? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 3. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Apostrophe. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metonymy. 4. My mother is so shy and boring. Last night at the magician show, he called her up on stage for her act. It was hilarious! A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 5. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."Many people passed away because of the endless war of nations." A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 6. Select the simile A) Your eyes are pretty. B) You have red eyes. C) Your eyes look like caves in a cliff. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Your eyes look like caves in a cliff. 7. He came, he saw, and he conquered. A) Metaphor. B) Synecdoche. C) Parallelism. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 8. So she put them on the shelf A) Tautology. B) Alliteration. C) Synecdoche. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 9. People use figurative language in their daily life. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. I received a text message from my mom telling me that I should go home tonight. I told my friends to leave them at 9. Then, I had known that the party died as soon as I left the part. A) PERSONIFICATION. B) HYPERBOLE. C) EUPHEMISM. D) METONYMY. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PERSONIFICATION. 11. 5) 1. I have told you to clean your room a million times, but you still have not done it! A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 12. "You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise" A) Rhetorical Question. B) Polysyndeton. C) Hendiadys. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 13. Which figure of speech compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. He was as brave as a lion. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. What does the quote below mean?"The best university of all is a collection of books." A) All universities should have a large book collection. B) Reading books can provide a person with an excellent education. C) A university can be judged by the size of its book collection. D) People who want to attend a university should first read a large collection of books. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reading books can provide a person with an excellent education. 16. Nobody can beat level six. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 17. It crackled and growled and roared and howled. A) Anticlimax. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Climax. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 18. Watson is as fat as a pie. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 19. The popular toy flew off the shelves during the holidays. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. It was raining cats and dogs outside. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 21. When a part of something is used to refer to the whole. A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Allusion. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 22. Which of the following is not an allusion A) Well miss him so much because he was the best dog ever. B) He is such a romeo with the ladies. C) Don't be a grinch. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Well miss him so much because he was the best dog ever. 23. A type of figurative language that compares one thing to another thing by stating that something "is" another thing. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 24. Complete this personification:The flowers ..... in the wind A) Blew. B) Bent. C) Danced. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Danced. 25. "Her words cut deeper than a knife."Which figure of speech has been used here? A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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