Figurative Language Quiz

identify the figure of speech: Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.

• Consonance

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Repetition

Identify the figure of speech: I am drowning in work.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Personification

"Bitter sweet" identify the figure of speech in the word/phrase.

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Synecdoche

• Onomatopoeia

Fill in the blank using a simile: He is as (a)   as a cucumber.

Identify the figure of speech depicted in the image.

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Irony

• Personification

Identify the figure of speech using the provided sound effects.

• Onomatopoeia

• Paradox

• Metonymy

• Pun

In this mode of speech, the real meanings of the words used are different from the intended meanings. For eg., the child of the cobbler has no shoe.

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Satire

Two figures of speech that involve comparisons are:

• Simile and metaphor

• Pun and paradox

• Metaphor and oxymoron

• Simile and hyperbole

I bombed the Biology test. I wish had studied harder for it. What does this mean?

• I was absent for the test

• I forgot I had a test

• I failed the test

• I passed the test

I was scared when i heard the tic-toc of the clock on midnight.

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Alliteration