Figures Of Speech Quiz 17 (25 MCQs)

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1. What do you call an elf who sings and prepares presents?A wrapper!
2. I slept like a log last night.
3. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."The deafening silence in this room is unbearable."
4. Mrs. Siberski whispered, "Shhhhh!" during the test. $^{This is an example of ..... }$
5. "The child was playing with a big toy named Tiny" is an example of .....
6. What is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects?
7. Every tinkle on the shingles has an echo in the heart.
8. In the sentence 'The wind whispered through the trees', what figure of speech is being used?
9. The first time I saw her, she looked like Snow White.
10. Their house was dirtier than a pig's pen.
11. Which figure of speech is used in the line "He is the Shakespeare of the class." ?
12. Blow-by-blow, the reporters busily broadcasted the happenings.
13. How is the allusion Adam and Eve commonly used?
14. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence. "The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue."
15. Mr. Felix is a tree that can withstand any storm.
16. The cookies are awfully good!
17. The child sneaked like a ninja past the sleeping dog.
18. Tom was a tornado moving through the classroom.
19. In the sentence "The moon was a silver coin in the sky, " which figurative language is used?
20. What do we call two contradictory words used together to signify two different but exact ideas.
21. Identify the figure of speech in this sentence:I have never seen anyone so tall, he was taller than the Burj Khalifa
22. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."The pen is mightier than the sword."
23. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:'She sells seashells by the seashore.'
24. "And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had."
25. A brief reference to a famous historical figure or event, like from a movie or a book.