Figures of Speech Quiz

Which figure of speech is being used in the following sentence: 'Her smile is as bright as the sun.'?

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Which figure of speech is being used in the following sentence: 'The wind whispered through the trees.'?

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Which figure of speech is being used in the following sentence: 'I've told you a million times to clean your room!'?

Which figure of speech is being used in the following sentence: 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'?

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Which figure of speech is being used in the following sentence: 'The buzzing bee flew past my ear.'?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

What is a figure of speech that compares two things using 'like' or 'as' called?

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

What is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to non-human things called?

• personification

• metaphor

• anthropomorphism

• simile

What is a figure of speech that exaggerates or overstates something called?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• understatement

• overstatement

What is a figure of speech that repeats the same sound at the beginning of multiple words called?

• simile

• rhyme

• metaphor

• alliteration

What is a figure of speech that imitates the sound it represents called?