8th Grade Literature Unit Test One

Choose the literary term that BEST corresponds with this excerpt: "That Madame Butterfly was a fool."

• metaphor
• simile
• idiom
• allusion

Choose the literary term that BEST corresponds with this excerpt: "Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem."

• metaphor
• simile
• allusion
• idiom

Choose the literary term that BEST corresponds with this excerpt: "With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias."

• consonance
• alliteration
• assonance
• metaphor

Choose the literary term that BEST corresponds with this excerpt: "It's all small and read with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Choose the literary term that BEST corresponds with this excerpt: "Esta muerto, and then, as if he just heard the news himself, crumples like a coat and cries, my brave Papa cries."

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Choose the literary term that BEST corresponds with this excerpt: "She borrows opera records from the public library and sings with velvety lungs powerful as morning glories."

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• theme

Choose the literary term that BEST corresponds with this excerpt: "I was a smart cookie then."

• allusion
• idiom
• hyperbole
• consonance

Choose the literary term that BEST corresponds with this excerpt: "Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off. Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier."

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• hyperbole

Choose the literary term that BEST corresponds with this excerpt: "Not like the shy ice cream bells' giggle of Rachel and Lucy's family, but all of a sudden and surprised like a pile of dishes breaking."

• metaphor
• simile
• theme
• personification

In at least THREE well-written sentences, explain what this passage reveals about the protagonist of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.