Questions for Figures of Speech
Direction (Q. No. 1 to 40): Point out the Figures of Speech in the
following: Questions for Figures of Speech
1. His language is sweet like honey.
(A) Simile
(B) Alliteration
(C) Personification
(D) Hyperbole
2. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Simile
(C) Alliteration
(D) Hyperbole
3. The child is the father of the man.
(A) Hyperbote
(C) Epigram
(B) Simile
(D) Interrogation
4. Truth sits upon the lips of a dying man.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Personification
(C) Simile
(D) Alliteration
5. O Sweet content! Where is thy mild abode?
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Personification
6. He is always idly busy.
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Oxymoron
(C) Simile
(D) Metaphor
7. Shall I wasting in despair die because a woman’s fair?
(A) Epigram
(B) Simile
(C) Interrogation
(D) Metaphor
8. Live like a hermit, and work like a horse.
(A) Simile
(B) Personification
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Epigram
9. She shall be sportive as the fawn.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Simile
(C) Personification
(D) Hyperbole
10. I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore.
(A) Alliteration
(B) Simile
(C) Personification
(D) Onomatopoeia
11. The news was a dagger to his heart.
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Alliteration
(D) Personification
12. Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
(A) Antithesis
(B) Epigram
(C) Personification
(D) Alliteration
13. She accepted the kind cruelty of a doctor’s knife.
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Personification
(D) Oxymoron
14. He is a man of iron will.
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Onomatopoeia
(D) Alliteration
15. Ten thousand I saw at a glance.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Simile
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Epigram
Questions for Figures of Speech
16. Which of the following is a lexical word ?
(A) Principal
(B) If
(C) Some
(D) Whether
17. Which one of the following is NOT a poetic device?
(A) Metaphor
(B) Alliteration
(C) Imagery
(D) Morphine
18. Which of the following is an ‘Oxymoron”?
(A) Bright light
(B) Cluster beans
(C) Deafening silence
(D) Mistyeyed
19. The figure of speech used in the line In heaven’s high bower’ is-
(A) Metaphor
(B) Personification
(C) Alliteration
(D) Simile
20. In the line “Hope is the thing with feathers’ the poet is using a/an-
(A) imagery
(B) simile
(C) allegory
(D) hyperbole
21. A crumb’ is metaphor for-
(A) hope
(B) sadness
(C) reward
(D) food
22. An example of a metaphor is-
(A) I’ll become the grass’
(B) Between the miles’
(C) I want to be’
(D) If you rest upon the ground
23. What figure of speech has been used in the following line?
Rascals and rogues ran a race round and round the rugged rock.
(A) Hyperbole
(B) Alliteration
(C) Onomatopoeia
(D) Apostrophe
24. Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.
(A) metaphor
(B) simile
(C) hyperbole
(D) personification
25. O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is the victory?
(A) oxymoron
(B) hyperbole
(C) metaphor
(D) apostrophe
26. The line °Like ruined monument on desert plain’ is an example of-
(A) Simile
(B) metaphor
(C) Elegy
(D) Hyperbole
27. The camel is the ship of desert.
(A) metaphor
(B) simile
(C) oxymoron
(D) epigram
28. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
(A) conceit
(B) Metaphor
(C) hyperbole
(D) metonymy
29, Necessity is the mother of invention.
(A) personification
(B) oxymoron
(C) hyperbole
(D) paradox
30. Find out the figure of speech in the following lines:
‘was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, And burnt the
topless towers of Illium?”
(A) Personification
(B) Hyperbole
(C) Metaphor
(D) Oxymoron
Questions for Figures of Speech
31. Simile is
(A) a part of speech
(B) a figure of speech
(C)a technical device used by old poets
(D) a sister of Emile Dickinson
32. To err is human, to forgive divine.
(A) simile
(B) irony
(C) litotes
(D) antithesis
33. My uncle passed away in 1970.
(A) euphemism
(B) apostrophe
(C) exclamation
(D) tautology
34. O Hamlet! Thou has cleft my heart in twain.
(A) hyperbole
(B) metaphor
(C) oxymoron
(D) apostrophe
35. My rancher uncle bought 50 head of cattle last week.
(A) oxymoron
(B) personification
(C) synecdoche
(D) euphemism
36. My son’s teacher made it clear that cheating on tests was no laughing matter.
(A) irony
(B) synecdoche
(C) litotes
(D) onomatopoeia
37. Pride goeth forth on horseback, grand and gay.
(A) personification
(B) hyperbole
(C) apostrophe
(D) metaphor
38. Many are called, few are chosen.
(A) oxymoron
(B) antithesis
(C) hyperbole
(D) personification
39. O Solitude! Where are thy charm that sages have seen in thy face?
(A) personification
(B) apostrophe
(C) hyperbole
(D) antithesis
Questions for Figures of Speech
Questions for Figures of Speech
Direction (Q. No. 1 to 40): Point out the Figures of Speech in the
following: Questions for Figures of Speech
1. His language is sweet like honey.
(A) Simile
(B) Alliteration
(C) Personification
(D) Hyperbole
2. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Simile
(C) Alliteration
(D) Hyperbole
3. The child is the father of the man.
(A) Hyperbote
(C) Epigram
(B) Simile
(D) Interrogation
4. Truth sits upon the lips of a dying man.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Personification
(C) Simile
(D) Alliteration
5. O Sweet content! Where is thy mild abode?
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Personification
6. He is always idly busy.
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Oxymoron
(C) Simile
(D) Metaphor
7. Shall I wasting in despair die because a woman’s fair?
(A) Epigram
(B) Simile
(C) Interrogation
(D) Metaphor
8. Live like a hermit, and work like a horse.
(A) Simile
(B) Personification
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Epigram
9. She shall be sportive as the fawn.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Simile
(C) Personification
(D) Hyperbole
10. I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore.
(A) Alliteration
(B) Simile
(C) Personification
(D) Onomatopoeia
11. The news was a dagger to his heart.
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Alliteration
(D) Personification
12. Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
(A) Antithesis
(B) Epigram
(C) Personification
(D) Alliteration
13. She accepted the kind cruelty of a doctor’s knife.
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Personification
(D) Oxymoron
14. He is a man of iron will.
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Onomatopoeia
(D) Alliteration
15. Ten thousand I saw at a glance.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Simile
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Epigram
Questions for Figures of Speech
16. Which of the following is a lexical word ?
(A) Principal
(B) If
(C) Some
(D) Whether
17. Which one of the following is NOT a poetic device?
(A) Metaphor
(B) Alliteration
(C) Imagery
(D) Morphine
18. Which of the following is an ‘Oxymoron”?
(A) Bright light
(B) Cluster beans
(C) Deafening silence
(D) Mistyeyed
19. The figure of speech used in the line In heaven’s high bower’ is-
(A) Metaphor
(B) Personification
(C) Alliteration
(D) Simile
20. In the line “Hope is the thing with feathers’ the poet is using a/an-
(A) imagery
(B) simile
(C) allegory
(D) hyperbole
21. A crumb’ is metaphor for-
(A) hope
(B) sadness
(C) reward
(D) food
22. An example of a metaphor is-
(A) I’ll become the grass’
(B) Between the miles’
(C) I want to be’
(D) If you rest upon the ground
23. What figure of speech has been used in the following line?
Rascals and rogues ran a race round and round the rugged rock.
(A) Hyperbole
(B) Alliteration
(C) Onomatopoeia
(D) Apostrophe
24. Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.
(A) metaphor
(B) simile
(C) hyperbole
(D) personification
25. O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is the victory?
(A) oxymoron
(B) hyperbole
(C) metaphor
(D) apostrophe
26. The line °Like ruined monument on desert plain’ is an example of-
(A) Simile
(B) metaphor
(C) Elegy
(D) Hyperbole
27. The camel is the ship of desert.
(A) metaphor
(B) simile
(C) oxymoron
(D) epigram
28. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
(A) conceit
(B) Metaphor
(C) hyperbole
(D) metonymy
29, Necessity is the mother of invention.
(A) personification
(B) oxymoron
(C) hyperbole
(D) paradox
30. Find out the figure of speech in the following lines:
‘was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, And burnt the
topless towers of Illium?”
(A) Personification
(B) Hyperbole
(C) Metaphor
(D) Oxymoron
Questions for Figures of Speech
31. Simile is
(A) a part of speech
(B) a figure of speech
(C)a technical device used by old poets
(D) a sister of Emile Dickinson
32. To err is human, to forgive divine.
(A) simile
(B) irony
(C) litotes
(D) antithesis
33. My uncle passed away in 1970.
(A) euphemism
(B) apostrophe
(C) exclamation
(D) tautology
34. O Hamlet! Thou has cleft my heart in twain.
(A) hyperbole
(B) metaphor
(C) oxymoron
(D) apostrophe
35. My rancher uncle bought 50 head of cattle last week.
(A) oxymoron
(B) personification
(C) synecdoche
(D) euphemism
36. My son’s teacher made it clear that cheating on tests was no laughing matter.
(A) irony
(B) synecdoche
(C) litotes
(D) onomatopoeia
37. Pride goeth forth on horseback, grand and gay.
(A) personification
(B) hyperbole
(C) apostrophe
(D) metaphor
38. Many are called, few are chosen.
(A) oxymoron
(B) antithesis
(C) hyperbole
(D) personification
39. O Solitude! Where are thy charm that sages have seen in thy face?
(A) personification
(B) apostrophe
(C) hyperbole
(D) antithesis
Questions for Figures of Speech
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