This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 16 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you're going to get. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Understatement. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 3. I'm so hungry I could eat a house. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Pun. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 4. My brother is a couch potato. A) METAPHOR. B) SIMILE. C) PERSONIFICATION. D) HYPERBOLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) METAPHOR. 5. Which figure of speech is the author using?"Speech is silver, but silence is gold." A) Antithesis. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 6. "The fat comedian is as plump as a pillow." What is compared? A) Plump and pillow. B) Comedian and pillow. C) Comedian and plump. D) Fat and plump. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comedian and pillow. 7. Which figure of speech repeats the same sound or letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 8. When a closely related term or symbol is substituted for what it represents, or some concrete term is used for a more abstract idea, the figure of speech is referred to as a ..... A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Simile. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metonymy. 9. Which among the following sentences uses an anaphora? A) Michael made mango marmalade. B) Oh darkness, please go away now. C) I have been telling you a million times about it. D) We dance, we sing, we play, and we talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We dance, we sing, we play, and we talk. 10. I walked a million miles to get here. A) METAPHOR. B) HYPERBOLE. C) ONOMATOPOEIA. D) HYPERBOLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) HYPERBOLE. 11. Actions speak louder than words. A) Simile. B) Proverbs. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proverbs. 12. The camel is the ship of the desert. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. An example of alliteration is:"Silently, softly the swans swam on the lake." A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. I have not seen her for ages. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 15. An excellent decision she made there. A) Apostrophe. B) Inversion. C) Antithesis. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inversion. 16. An obvious exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 17. Choose the definition of:Onomatopoeia A) The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning. B) Giving an animal or object human characteristics. C) Comparison using extreme exaggeration. D) Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning. 18. The moon winked at me through the clouds as if to say I should venture forward.'What object is being personified in the sentence? A) Clouds. B) Winked. C) Say. D) Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moon. 19. Give an example of a simile. A) Her smile is as bright as the sun. B) Her smile is as warm as a cup of tea. C) Her smile is as radiant as a diamond. D) Her smile is as bright as a lightbulb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her smile is as bright as the sun. 20. If you have "opened up a can of worms, " it means: A) You have brought up a funny subject. B) You have brought up a troublesome subject. C) You have brought up a boring subject. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You have brought up a troublesome subject. 21. "The more you look, the less you see." A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 22. I'm on my 14 caratsI'm 14 caratDoing it up like Midas, mhm Now you say I got a touch So good, so good Make you never wanna leave So don't, so don't ..... Selena Gomez "Good For You" What is the allusion? A) 14 carats. B) Midas. C) Wanna. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Midas. 23. Let the floods clap their hands. A) Simile. B) Tautology. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 24. Figure of speech in which the author makes an obvious exaggeration A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 25. She stuck the stolen stapler in her suitcase A) Alliteration. B) , personification,. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor,. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← 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