This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 43 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are figures of speech? A) When someone talks about numbers. B) The actual meaning of words. C) Language that is used in a non-literal way. D) Famous people who gave speeches. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language that is used in a non-literal way. 2. Which term refers to the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things? A) Paradox. B) Personification. C) Anthropomorphism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anthropomorphism. 3. A direct comparison in which two things are compared directly by using 'like' (A is like B.) A) Metaphor. B) Antithesis. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 4. That must have cost a billion dollars. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 5. What figure of speech is being asked? "He has the patience of Job." A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Apostrophe. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 6. Idioms are A) Not what it says. B) What it says. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not what it says. 7. Repetition of words or sounds is called Imagery. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. The tree invited us to come and play. A) SIMILE. B) METAPHOR. C) PERSONIFICATION. D) HYPERBOLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PERSONIFICATION. 9. The stars danced in the night sky. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. Like a drum my heart never stops beating for you ..... the lyric is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 11. What type of figure of speech is present in this sentence?Time is money. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. Superman is as fast as a speeding bullet. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. The clouds are cotton balls in the sky.This is an example of which literary device? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. "It's like I'm in Heaven" is an idiom A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. What figure of speech is used in the phrase 'buzzing bees'? A) Simile. B) The figure of speech used in the phrase 'buzzing bees' is 'alliteration'. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The figure of speech used in the phrase 'buzzing bees' is 'alliteration'. 16. This figure of speech make a direct comparison using two unlike things. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. She shouldn't be shamed by the shrugs of the people. What figure of speech was used here? A) Consonance. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 18. I bust a move A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 19. The moon smiled at the stars in the sky. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. '' The air was so dry. I could hardly breath without coughing. I Heard tumbleweed dancing all around me" is an example of A) Idiom. B) Symbol. C) Hyperboly. D) Personfication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personfication. 21. Where are you my pen?(Mark the figure of speech) A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Apostrophe. D) Apostrophie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 22. Which of the following figures of speech is not a sound device? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 23. "Go slow over the road." is an example of ..... A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Irony. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 24. Rich was over the moon with excitement after hearing the good news. A) Unhappy. B) Surprised. C) Confused. D) Thrilled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thrilled. 25. Which figurative language is represented in the phrase "The giant's footsteps were thunderclaps" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← 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