Language Review

The mood in the picture is .......

• amused

• confused

• joyful

• lonely

City Autumn By Joseph Moncure March   

The air breathes frost. A thin wind beats

Old dust and papers down gray streets

And blows brown leaves with curled-up edges

At frightened sparrows on window ledges.

What is the mood?

• Joyful

• Annoyed

• Gloomy

• Puzzled

The City is So Bigby Richard GarciaI

I have seen machines eating houses

And stairways walk all by themselves

And elevator doors opening and closing

And people disappear. 

What is the mood?

• Fearful and confused

• Jealous and annoyed

• Hearbroken and bitter

• Irritated and embarassed

Cricket is ........ than football.

• most exciting

• excitinger

• more exciting

• excitingest

English is ...... than Chinese.

• more easy

• more easier

• easier

• easiest

Find the indefinite pronoun

There is someone at the door.

• There

• Someone

• Door

• None of the above

Fill in the correct reflexive pronoun:

We both felt nervous before the interview but kept telling ____ there was nothing to fear.

• wereselves

• themselves

• ourselves

• thereselves

 Determine which figure of speech is in the sentence below:

Her hands were as cold as ice after the hayride.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Determine which figure of speech is in the sentence below:

The statement, “No homework today,” was music to the students’ ears.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• Alliteration

Determine which figure of speech is in the sentence below:

Julia felt like she had been walking for days.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration