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FIGURES OF SPEECH REVIEW

Quiz by Ellen Marie

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  • Q1
    It is short well-known wise saying that contains truth, common sense, experience and wisdom.
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    Proverbs
    Idiom
    30s
  • Q2
    They are repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words and they do not depend on letters but sounds
    Alliteration
    Simile
    Idiom
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q3
    A word which imitates the sound made by an object or a certain action
    Hyperbole
    Simile
    Onomatopoeia
    Idiom
    30s
  • Q4
    A statement so exaggerated no one believes to be true
    Personification
    Fiction
    Hyperbole
    Nonfiction
    30s
  • Q5
    Direct comparison without as or like
    Proverb
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Hyperbole
    30s
  • Q6
    Gives animals or inanimate objects human-like characteristics
    Idiom
    Personification
    Onomatopoeia
    Hyperbole
    30s
  • Q7
    Uses the words “like” or “as” to compare two explicitly unlike things as being similar.
    Alliteration
    Hyperbole
    Simile
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q8
    "Goodbye class let's call it a day," is an example of.
    Hyperbole
    Idiom
    Metaphor
    Simile
    30s
  • Q9
    "Drip, drip, drip went the faucet all day long." is an example of...
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Idiom
    Onomatopoeia
    30s
  • Q10
    "I must have slept a hundred years." is an example of...
    Simile
    Personification
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q11
    "All the world is a stage and we are the actors," is an example of...
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Personification
    Hyperbole
    30s
  • Q12
    "Two heads are better than one," is an example of....
    Metaphor
    Proverb
    Simile
    Idiom
    30s
  • Q13
    "Fair is foul and foul is fair," is an example of...
    Alliteration
    Hyperbole
    Idiom
    Simile
    30s
  • Q14
    "The moon was resting in the midnight sky," is an example of...
    Personification
    Idiom
    Metaphor
    Proverbs
    30s
  • Q15
    "Your heart is as hard as a rock" is an example of...
    Idiom
    Metaphor
    Proverb
    Simile
    30s

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