This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 39 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to an object, an animal or an idea. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 2. Meow, where's my milk, cried the cat is an example of? A) Litotes. B) Simile. C) Anticlimax. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 3. Let's call it a day. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 4. Which two figures of speech involve comparisons? (REM) A) Simile & Metaphor. B) Hyperbole & Simile. C) Personification & Idiom. D) Alliteration & Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile & Metaphor. 5. My mom has a green thumb. A) Apostrophe. B) Metonymy. C) Synecdoche. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 6. Butter bakes better biscuits is an example of? A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. What kind of figure of speech is an opposite of what you mean? A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 8. "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." (Identify the figure of speech) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. This figures of speech give human characteristic to non human entities. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. Her face can launch a thousand ships. A) Smile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. Identify the figure of speech in these lines:Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel. A) Repetition and Metaphor. B) Alliteration and Metaphor. C) Oxymoron and Alliteration. D) Metaphor and Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration and Metaphor. 12. I am excited to hear the popping of popcorns. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 13. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, A) Hendiadys. B) Anaphora. C) Asyndeton. D) Polysyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 14. What are the 5 Sensory Images? A) Sight, Hearing, Smell, Feel, Taste. B) Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch. C) Sight, Hear, Smell, Taste, Touch. D) Sighting, Hear, Smell, Taste, Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch. 15. Mr. Arendt was crazy like a fox. What does the simile mean in this sentence? A) He was insane. B) He was mean and dangerous. C) He was clever and sly. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was clever and sly. 16. The plane ride took forever. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 17. Milton! Thou should be living at this hour. A) Apostrophe. B) Personification. C) Cliche. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 18. Is he the man who can run a trillion kilo meters?.(Mark the figure of speech) A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Apostrophe. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 19. You are as pretty as a flower. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. What figure of speech shows exaggeration of ideas to emphasize a point? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 21. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. A) Cliche. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cliche. 22. Saying, "Good job!" to someone who just rear ended a car. A) Pun. B) Irony. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 23. Wow! This is an example of which figure of speech? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 24. In your history book, you read about a young man in the Irish War of Independence who kills a British soldier. That soldier who was killed turns out to be his favourite cousin. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 25. She was as bright as a star in the midnight sky. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← 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