English Final Exam

1. What is the correct definition of a simile?

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• A phrase that contrasts two objects.

• A comparison using the words “like” or “as”.

• A comparison NOT using the words “like” or “as”.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

2. What is the correct definition of a metaphor?

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• A phrase that contrasts two objects.

• A comparison using the words “like” or “as”.

• A comparison NOT using the words “like” or “as”.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

3. What is the correct definition of personification?

• Making reference to a character from another text in order to show a comparison

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• A phrase that contrasts two objects

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is the correct definition of hyperbole?

• A word that imitates a sound

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• A comparison NOT using the words “like” or “as

• An extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is the correct definition of onomatopoeia?

• A word that imitates a sound.

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• A comparison using the words “like” or “as”.

• None of the above.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the correct definition of an idiom?

• An expression that means more than it is

• A word that imitates a sound

• An extreme exaggeration

• None of the Above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is the correct definition of alliteration?

• A word that imitates a sound

• An extreme exaggeration

• The repetition of beginning sounds

• Giving human characteristics of inanimate objects

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

8. What is the correct definition of irony

• A comparison using the words “like” or “as

• Giving human characteristics of inanimate objects

• Making reference to a character from another text in order to show a comparison

• When the opposite of what you expect occurs

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Identify the sentence type in the following:

9. She smiled sweetly, and he grinned shyly

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Identify the sentence type in the following:

Mary and Tom agreed to meet after school.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B