This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 23 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Do not go into the water until you have learnt to swim." Is this a paradox? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. A man tastes his wife's delicious home-cooked meal and exclaims, "I shall never eat this food ever again" . A) Hyperbole. B) Pun. C) Irony. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 3. I have tons and tons of work to do. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 4. George is as wise as an owl. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. Can you provide an example of a simile? A) The sun is as bright as a flashlight. B) His voice sounded like a trumpet. C) The flowers danced like fairies. D) Her eyes sparkled like diamonds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her eyes sparkled like diamonds. 6. What is the figure of speech in which non-human or non-living things are spoken about as if they are human? (REM) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. The deafening silence drove the man crazy.This is an example of which literary device A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 8. She's as skinny as a toothpick. Which is the figure of speech here? A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 9. What figure of speech was used in this sentence:My father was the sun and the moon to me. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. ..... ! I heard my sister crying after the sad movie. A) Crunch. B) Oink. C) Sniff. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sniff. 11. He received a mortal wound. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Transferred Epithet. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transferred Epithet. 12. Which figure of speech is the author using?"The moon was playing hide and seek with the clouds" A) Antithesis. B) Rhetorical question. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. Which figure of speech gives of human qualities to non-human things. A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. The brown grass was begging for water. A) HYPERBOLE. B) METAPHOR. C) SIMILE. D) PERSONIFICATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) PERSONIFICATION. 15. Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."I'd move mountains for her." A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 16. The rain gently kissed my cheeks.What does the personification mean in this sentence? A) It was raining very hard. B) The rain finally stopped. C) It was raining very lightly. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was raining very lightly. 17. She is as lovely as an angel. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 18. Choose the definition of:Metaphor A) Language that uses words and details that appeal to a readers senses, such as sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell and emotions. B) Type of figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things by using the words like or as. C) Comparison using extreme exaggeration. D) Type of figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things which does not use the words like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Type of figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things which does not use the words like or as. 19. Life is a bowl of cherries A) Conceit. B) Cliche. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceit. 20. "My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain."The above example reveals which figure of speech? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 21. The teacher told us the test would be a piece of cake, but I disagree.What does the idiom "a piece of cake" mean? A) A small slice of cake. B) Easy. C) Difficult. D) Perplexing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Easy. 22. The loud sound created an earthquake inside the room. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 23. But when the trees bow down their heads A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 24. What is the figure of speech called when you make a direct comparison without using the words 'like' or 'as'? A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Simile. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Metaphor. 25. I am dying because of boredom is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. ← 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