This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 8 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The sun laughed A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. I give attributes of personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human. I am a/an ..... A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 3. Non-living things, abstract ideas or qualities are mentioned as humans or living things. A) Hyperbole. B) Idioms. C) Personification. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. The students chatted on and on A) Repetition. B) Synecdouche. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 5. Repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning at the beginning of successive clauses. A) Asyndeton. B) Polysyndeton. C) Hendiadys. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 6. The repetition of sounds in the beginning of words is called ..... A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 7. What does the example of hyperbole, "I have a million things to do today" mean? A) There are a million things to do today. B) There is nothing to do today. C) There is a lot to do tomorrow. D) There is a lot to do today. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There is a lot to do today. 8. The dentist had a severe toothache A) Synecdoche. B) Paradox. C) Antithesis. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 9. The Moo Cow's tail is a piece of rope all raveled out where it grows. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. Sarah is barking up the wrong tree; that sore doesn't even sell pet supplies. A) Looking in the wrong place. B) Making a fuss over nothing. C) Using her imagination. D) Making too much noise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Looking in the wrong place. 11. Samantha shot off down the path like a rocket. What does the simile mean in this sentence? A) She ran very fast. B) She jumped into the air. C) She wanted to be an astronaut. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She ran very fast. 12. Again came the tong-ting-tong of a sheep bell. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 13. Death touched Miss David with its icy fingers. A) Litotes. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. This is nice hot coffee. A) Polysyndeton. B) Alliteration. C) Hendiadys. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hendiadys. 15. Things became hard in life so she just kept swimming. What does this mean? A) She gave up. B) She stoped in the middle. C) She kept going. D) She went to sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She kept going. 16. You are always such a big baby! A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 17. The road to success is always under construction. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Pun. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 18. What figure of speech is used in the sentence:'The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. Juan had a hard time hearing the teacher over his grumbling stomach. *What is the onomatopoeia? A) Grumbling. B) Teacher. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grumbling. 20. 'They lived and laughed and loved and left.' (James Joyce). This quote is an example of what type of figure of speech? A) Hypophora. B) Motif. C) Satire. D) Polysyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polysyndeton. 21. "I'm so thirtsy, I could drink a lake." is an example of Oxymoron. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. "Help came running fast when the Filipinos needed each other." This is an example of what figure of speech? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 23. Which of these completes this sentence with alliteration?Are you hungry? Let's find a cafe for ..... , ..... and ..... A) Egg, chips and cola. B) Coffee, cakes and tea. C) Coffee, cakes and cola. D) Fish, chips and coffee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coffee, cakes and cola. 24. The phrase "The thunder growled in the distance" is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Anaphora. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 25. The sentence "The eager elephant eagerly ate eight enormous eggs" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← 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 9Figures Of Speech Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books