HiSET Language 20 questions

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.

• His room looked as if a hurricane came through.

• A hurricane! AHHH!

• The hurricane screamed through the town.

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

Manuever means to ____.

• regress

• manipulate

• rotate

• quit

The word that is describing the action of the sentence is the ____.

• axion verb

• verb in movement

• verb

• action verb

Complete this sentence. "What do you think they will do when they see ____ stuff is gone?"

• thare

• they're

• their

• there

When a sentence does not sound complete and is missing basic building blocks for clear writing then it is considered a ____.

• incomplete

• changed

• frazzled

• fragment

He, she, it, they, them are examples of a ___.

• noun

• subject

• object

• pronoun

He, she, it, they, them are examples of a ___.

• noun

• subject

• object

• pronoun

A noun labels a ______.

• person, place, or thing

• person, place, thing, or idea

• person or persons

• person or thing