Figurative Language Quiz

Which of the following are examples of assonance? There are two answers.

• Quietly try to light the fire.

• Please enter the dark room quietly.

• She journeyed through the barely lit forest at dusk.

• The thundering sound crumbled under the turning sea.

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Which of the following is not an example of onomatopoeia?

• zoom

• clap

• cracking

• run

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What is a rhetorical question?

• A question with one specific answer.

• A question that is answered with another question.

• A question that is not meant to be answered.

• A question that is meant to be a command.

Which of the following is not an example of a metaphor? Choose only one response.

• The cherry-trees are seas of bloom and soft perfume and sweet perfume.

• This occupation was the goal for my dreams and aspirations.

• The twigs were set beneath a veil of willows.

• At night, the lake is a wide silence, without imagination.

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Which of the following are examples of personification? There are two answers.

• The news of his death took me by surprise.

• The ocean danced underneath the pale moonlight.

• My shirt was torn, because it got hooked on a screw in the chair.

• The door remained unlocked for what seemed like hours.

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Which is an example of imagery?

• Geri new she needed to go make a payment before the store closed; she did not want to make a late payment and get charged a fee.

• Ben sat on the chair as nervous thoughts passed through his head about his upcoming presentation.

• Though I was on the sheer face of a mountain, the feeling of swinging through the air was euphoric, almost like flying without wings.

• None use examples of imagery.

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The following sentence uses examples of which two devices? "The end of the deafening screaming and shouting signified the sudden surrender."

• hyperbole and alliteration

• alliteration and simile

• simile and hyperbole

• personification and simile

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Which of the following is an example of symbolism in literature?

• Fall representing growing old.

• The color black to symbolize evil.

• Both examples are correct.

• Neither of the examples are correct.

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"I must confess that in my quest I felt stressed and restless." This sentence is an example of which figurative language devices?

• assonance

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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"Janet worked her fingers to the bone." This is an example of which figurative language device?

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• symbolism

• metaphor

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