Quiz Yourself on Figures of Speech

Read each sentence.  Decide which figure of speech has been used. Click on your answer.

1.  The road was a ribbon of moonlight.	metaphor	simile	personification
2. The wild and woolly walrus waits and wonders when we'll walk by.	alliteration	onomatopoeia	cliche
3. Mile-high ice-cream cones	idiom	hyperbole	assonance
4.  The sun is like a yellow ball of fire in the sky.	simile	personification	metaphor
5.  Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.	assonance	onomatopoeia	alliteration
6.  She sings at the top of her lungs.	cliche	simile	idiom
7.  No pain,  no gain	cliche	metaphor	assonance
8.   Sally sells seashells by the seashore.	onomatopoeia	alliteration	personification
9 . The stuffed bear smiled as the little boy hugged him close.	personification	assonance	idiom
10. You could have knocked me over with a feather.	alliteration	simile	hyperbole
11. Randy Rathbone wrapped a rather rare red rabbit.	assonance	alliteration	metaphor
12. Ring! Ring! We heard the telephone.	cliche	hyperbole	onomatopoeia
13. We left a million messages.	personification	hyperbole	idiom
14. It's raining cats and dogs.	cliche	idiom	alliteration
15. Secrets don't make friends.	cliche	simile	onomatopoeia
16. Her eyes sparkled like the night's sky.	alliteration	simile	assoncance
17.  The wind ran with us as we left.	metaphor	personification	hyperbole
18. Her hair was a golden waterfall.	idiom	simile	metaphor
19. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.	assonance	alliteration	personification
20.  Uri Udall usually used his unique unusual unicycle.	alliteration	hyperbole	cliche

 

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