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FIGURE OF SPEECH

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Synecdoche

2.

It involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Paradox

3.

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

4.

What kind of Figure of Speech is:

Jose Rizal, where are the youth today?

a)

Litotes

b)

Apostrophe

c)

Paradox

d)

Irony

5.

What is the figure of speech used in the line "She is no fool."?

a)

Metonymy

b)

Synecdoche

c)

Litotes

d)

Chiasmus

6.

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

The water angrily flowed towards the sea.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Assonance

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

7.

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

I am so hungry I can eat a mountain.

a)

Simile

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

8.

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

The gushing wind blew through the trees.

a)

Simile

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

9.

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

That person runs like a road-runner.

a)

Simile

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

10.

Her life was a rainbow of experiences.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

11.
A figure of speech is ___________.
a)
a familiar expression or saying
b)
a non-literal way of saying something.
c)
what the author literally means.
d)
something only writers use.
12.

Let the floods clap their hands.

a)

Simile

b)

Tautology

c)

Personification

13.

True or False: Metaphor is a figure of speech.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

This doughnut is speaking to me! This is an example of:

a)

Personification

b)

Alliteration

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

15.

What figure of speech uses 'like' or 'as'?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Idiom

d)

Simile