IA Review 3

The pencil danced across the paper.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Life is like a box of chocolates.

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets!

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tommy is a bull in a china shop.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Gabby gulped down the Mountain Dew.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

Sally sold seashells by the seashore.

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

He told the actors to "break a leg" for good luck before the play began.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metophor

• simile

Match the following:

• alliteration

• A weird expression that means something other than what it actually says

• hyperbole

• an exaggeration

• personification

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

• idiom

• the repetition of the same beginning sound

• metaphor

• Comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

What do you call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word? 

• Explanation
• Synonym
• Antonym
• Homonym

What is the point of context clues? 

• to make words more difficult or confusing
• to help find the meaning of words
• to write a sentence
• to make reading harder