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Figure of Speech

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is an explicit or direct comparison between two things of different classes.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Synecdoche

2.

It is bolder than simile and the comparison is implied or indirect between two objects of different classes

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Synecdoche

3.

A figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Synecdoche

4.

It names a part of an object to stand for the whole, or the whole for a part.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Synecdoche

5.

It involves the use of a term connected with an object to represent that object.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Parodox

6.

It involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Paradox

7.

It is putting side by side of two normally contradictory words.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Paradox

8.

It is saying something which seems untrue, but on close examination, proves to be true or partly true.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Paradox

9.

It is a casual reference either by directly or by borrowing familiar phrases from the bible, history or literature.

a)

Allusion

b)

Irony

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Litotes

10.

It involves a contrast, a discrepancy between the expected and what actually happens.

a)

Allusion

b)

Irony

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Litotes

11.

It is the formation or use of words having a sound that imitates what they denote.

a)

Allusion

b)

Irony

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Litotes

12.

It is a deliberate understatement used to affirm by negating its opposite.

a)

Allusion

b)

Irony

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Litotes

13.

It is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or even to an inanimate objects or ideas.

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Alliteration

c)

Assonance

d)

Consonance

14.

It is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in the sentence. It is also known as "tongue twister”.

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Alliteration

c)

Assonance

d)

Consonance

15.

It is the repetition of the middle vowel sound.

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Alliteration

c)

Assonance

d)

Consonance

16.

It is sometimes called “slant” rhyme. Both consonants occur at the end of the word as in odds and ends.

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Alliteration

c)

Assonance

d)

Consonance

17.

What kind of Figure of Speech is:

Jose Rizal, where are the youth today?

a)

Litotes

b)

Apostrophe

c)

Paradox

d)

Irony

18.

What kind of Figure of Speech is:

You're so kind to answer back your parent.

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Alliteration

c)

Irony

d)

Paradox

19.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Alliteration

c)

Consonance

d)

Assonance

20.

a. Race and make, foolish and crooning

b. Dreary and weary, napping and tapping

a)

a. Consonance

b. Assonance

b)

a. Assonance

b. Consonance

c)

a. Assonance

b. Alliteration

d)

a. Consonance

b. Alliteration