Figures of Speech Quiz

Which figure of speech uses 'like' or 'as' to draw comparisons?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

What is the figure of speech where one thing is said to be another?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Which figure of speech attributes human characteristics to non-human things?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

What is the term for an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

Which figure of speech involves the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole