Figures Of Speech Question Preview (ID: 36028)


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Our soldiers are as brave as lions.
a) metaphor
b) simile
c) personification
d) irony

She is fishing in troubled waters.
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) allusion

A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.
a) irony
b) metaphor
c) allusion
d) simile

Lightning danced across the sky.
a) litotes
b) apostrophe
c) metonymy
d) personification

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets.
a) hyperbole
b) apostrophe
c) simile
d) irony

Ferris does not have what we consider to be an exemplary attendance record.
a) metaphor
b) irony
c) litotes
d) allusion

When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic.
a) irony
b) allusion
c) personification
d) hyperbole

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
a) hyperbole
b) metaphor
c) simile
d) personification

Watching the show was like watching grass grow.
a) simile
b) irony
c) allusion
d) personification

“He was a real Romeo with the ladies.”
a) hyperbole
b) allusion
c) metaphor
d) litotes

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