Junior English practice test review

Identify the language feature in the following sentence: "Can you smell... sniff sniff... smoke?"

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Identify ONE of the two the language features in the following sentence:

"The sky is alive and seething, swallowing the moon"

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Identify ONE of the two the language features in the following sentence:

"The sky is alive and seething, swallowing the moon"

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

Identify the language feature here:

"Like a best, the city has been erupting into chaos, into riots, into anarchy."

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Identify the language feature here:

"The fire was a raging tiger."

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Identify the language feature here:

"The power saw screamed then turned to a muttering."

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Identify the language feature here:

"... a fitter end for a forest giant than this ignoble inevitability"

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

What is the best meaning for the word "ignoble" as seen in the sentence:

"That would have been a battle, a fitter end for a forest giant than this ignoble inevitability."

• not honorable

• respectable

• gaseous

• avoidable

Identify the language feature:

Sally suddenly slipped down the slide.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Identify the language feature:

He is as strong as an ox.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme

• Metaphor