6th Grade 5-A-Day Language Week 1

Choose the antonym for "deception".

• loyal
• blind
• honesty
• lies

An extremely tall person would be ___.

• impeccable
• conspicuous
• defendant
• honesty

Choose a matching analogy for liar:honesty.

• lawyer:mercy
• mother:children
• soldier:power
• fool:wisdom

Identify the correct figure of speech in the following sentence.
The busy pedestrians mostly ignored the old melancholy house.

• The busy pedestrians
• mostly ignored
• the old
• melancholy house.

Identify the type of sentence.
I won't go to the movies unless you come as well.

• simple
• compound
• complex

Which word is NOT spelled correctly?

• acceptable
• acquit
• acceptible
• refine

What type of pronoun is "me" in the following sentence? My grandma gave me a beautiful quilt to put on my bed.

• subjective
• objective
• possessive
• intensive

Which figure of speech is "melancholy house"?

• irony
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• personification

What is the root word in "defendant"?

• de-
• fend
• -ant

What is the root word in "defendant"?

• de-
• fend
• -ant