This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 36 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 36 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which sentence does not use personification? A) Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name. B) The wind howled in the night. C) The falling snowflakes are dancers. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The falling snowflakes are dancers. 2. This is the attitude the author give the character or the piece he or she has written. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 3. Pam was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 4. What figure of speech is used in the sentence below:Trying to get Paula out of bed was like pulling teeth! A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 5. I am starving that I could eat a cow. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 6. What is a a SIMILE? A) It is a comparison of two things using like or as as. B) It shows a difference between two ideas. C) A kind expression typically with the corners of your mouth turned up. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is a comparison of two things using like or as as. 7. The thunder cracked in the night. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 8. What is an onomatipoeia? A) ZAPP. B) An over exaggeration. C) A long word. D) Giving nonliving things human characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ZAPP. 9. A type of figurative language that gives human traits or characteristics to nonliving objects is called A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 10. Identify the part of speech "Education is our passport to the future, and tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today" (UND) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. Direct comparison of two different things. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 12. What figure of speech is used in the word 'buzz'? A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 13. What figure of speech is being asked? "Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow flakes." A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. When the news of the failure came, all his friends said that was a victorious defeat. A) Oxymoron. B) Synecdoche. C) Simile. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 15. What is the figure of speech in which non human or non living things are spoken about as if they were human? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. The plates danced on the shelves during the earthquake is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 17. Father works like a dog. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. It is raining cats and dogs is an example of which figure of speech? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hypernite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. That rat is Sherlock Holmes!(Mark the figure of speech) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Apostrophe. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. Typhoon Ulysses removed a great number of houses in Cagayan. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 21. The plane was dancing in the air. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 22. He runs as fast as Formula 1.(Mark the figure of speech) A) Apostrophe. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 23. Euphemism is used to soften or mask an unpleasant idea. (a) A) A. True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. True. 24. The homeless survived in their cardboard palaces. A) Climax. B) Apostrophe. C) Irony. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 25. You are my sun. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. 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