Olympic Quiz

Classify the figure of speech:
On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.
—John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

• Simile
• Verbal irony
• Similee
• Metaphor

Classify the figure of speech:
The audience at the 2012 Olympics cheered as, with Herculean effort, Kim Un-Guk of North Korea set an Olympic record by lifting a 153-kilogram weight.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Allusion
• Onomatopoeia

Classify the figure of speech:
At twenty-one, Nolan felt overwhelmed with adult responsibilities and wished he could fly off to Neverland.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Personifiction

Classify the figure of speech:
Throughout the ages, human beings have pondered the many mysteries of the moon.

• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

Classify the figure of speech:
The water made a sound like kittens lapping.—Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Classify the figure of speech:
Erin Brockovich, a single mother with no legal training, helped win a daunting court battle against a Goliath energy company.

• Allusoon
• Alusion
• Alliteration
• Allusion

Classify the figure of speech:
We held our breath as the basketball made an arc toward the basket and then sunk into the net with a satisfying whoosh.

• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Onmatpoea
• Metaphor

Classify the figure of speech:
When I was a teenager, reading was my ticket to foreign lands: I traveled to India, China, and Antarctica without ever leaving the comfort of my home.

• Metophare
• Assonance
• Metaphor
• Asonannce

Classify the figure of speech:
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands . . . —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle"

• Personification
• Motaphore
• Parsonfiction
• Metaphor

Classify the figure of speech:
After Cora cooked and served a scrumptious dinner, Dad boasted that she is the Julia Child of our family.

• Alusoon
• Allusion
• Similee
• Simile