Skill Review (Figurative Language, Audience, and Subject-Verb A)

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

"The ocean waves lashed out at the boat, and the storm continued to brew."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

identify the figure of speech:

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

• alliteration

• consonance

• repetition

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the type of figurative language best shown in this example.

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the type of figurative language best shown in this example.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Keywords for this type of writing could be: central ideas, convey and develop, and inform and explain.

• Argumentative

• Explanatory

• Narrative

• Expository

States the writers opinion and attempts to influence the reader. (Hint: must include both).

• Descriptive

• Expository

• Narrative

• Persuasive

You read a news story on the front page of the paper about an earthquake in another country. It gives the facts about where, when, who, what, and how.

What type of writing is it?

• narrative

• persuasive

• expository

• descriptive

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

You have just been hired as the restaurant critic for your local newspaper. For your first assignment, you visit a new restaurant and discover the best seafood in the area. You write a REVIEW telling the readers to check out this new restaurant.

What type of writing is it?

• expository

• persuasive

• narrative

• descriptive

Because of the storm, the game pitting the two rivals against each other ___ canceled.

• was

• were

• are

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1F

The students, who hated writing essays, ___ surprised they enjoyed the essay's topic.

• was

• were

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1F