House on Mango Street Vocabulary Test

The word personification means...

• an extreme exaggeration

• giving human characteristics or qualities to animals, forces of nature, or objects.

• a comparison using "like" or "as"

Figurative language...

• a figure of speech that compares without using the words "like" or "as"

• giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or forces of nature

• expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true but express some truth beyond the literal level.

A simile is

• a comparison using the words "like" or "as" with two seemingly unlike things

• extreme exaggeration

• using clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words in a sentence

Which of these is a metaphor?

• The trees were bending like rubber bands in the wind.

• The stars were as bright as fireworks on the Fourth of July

• Their eyes were fiery red with golden streaks of anger.

Which one of these is an example of a simile?

• Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire, that's the way love goes.

• He was angry because she took his toy.

• The wind whispered through the trees last night.

Which of these is an example of personification?

• The waves crashing sounded like my father pounding his hammer.

• The wind whistled as it swept through the leaves in the trees.

• The boy is funny as a clown.

What is a figure of speech?

• a word or phrase not meant to be taken literally, but rather used for effect

• extreme exaggeration

• to restate briefly the most important points in a text.

• undistorted by emotion or personal bias

Context is

• an extreme exaggeration

• a comparison

• the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event.

When you summarize, you...

• tell everything that happened in great detail

• give your opinion of what happened

• restate briefly the most important points in a text

To be objective means...

• very opinionated

• undistorted by emotion or personal bias

• always right

• fussy in an argumentative way