Interactive Hyperlink Quiz

1. Figures of
Speech quiz

2. Choose the letter that
corresponds to the
best answer.

3. Figures of speech mean exactly
what the words say.
TRUE FALSE
EITHER TRUE OR
FALSE
TRUE IN SOME CASES

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6. What are the two figures of speech
that involve comparisons?
SIMILE AND IRONY
METAPHOR AND
PERSONIFICATION
SIMILE AND
METAPHOR
PERSONIFICATION AND
IRONY

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9. ‘Meow, where’s my milk,’ cried the
cat is an example of what figurative
language?
HYPERBOLE ONOMATOPOEIA
PERSONIFICATION IRONY

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12. What kind of figure of speech is a
direct comparison of two unlike
things without using like and as?
SIMILE IRONY
METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION

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15. Which line does not include a
simile?
HE LOOKED LIKE HE
HAD FALLEN.
LIKE A GAZELLE, SHE
RAN AWAY.
THE SHIP WENT
DOWN LIKE LEAD.
HER HAND WAS AS
SOFT AS VELVET.

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18. Which of the following is an
example of onomatopoeia?
BUZZ DRINK
RUNNING NOISY

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21. The sound device alliteration
involves which of the following?
RHYME AT THE END OF
LINES OF VERSE
REPETITION OF INITIAL
CONSONANT SOUNDS
IN STRESSES
SYLLABLES
THE USE OF A WORD
WHICH SOUND
IMITATES ITS MEANING
REPETITION OF FINAL
CONSONANT SOUNDS

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24. Rain races, ripping and restless in
its rage is an example of what
figurative language?
ALLITERATION PERSONIFICATION
IRONY METAPHOR

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27. When the gates were opened, the mob
surged forward like a burst dam.
This sentence is an example of a/an:
METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
IRONY SIMILE

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30. These walls definitely have ears!
This sentence is an example of
a/an:
METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
IRONY SIMILE

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