Figurative Language Practice

• personification

• simile

• analogy

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

• the condition of the truck

• embarrassment about the ring

• the brilliant color of the truck

• the type of stone in the ring

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

• The moon was a gleaming silver coin in the sky.

• An enormous brown buffalo blundered into the pasture.

• Melinda had waited forever for this day to arrive.

• The watchful eye of the camera captured the screen onstage.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which three words are examples of onomatopoeia?

(Read the question very carefully.)

• vocalizations, chitter

• chitter, dog, bark

• sounds, teeth

• chattering, chitter

• bark

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

• imagery

• glossary

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Mrs. Schesventer was way in over her head with grades due in just one week! She feverishly worked and graded like a madwoman! It would only be a matter of moments before Dr. Alarcon would be asking for her grades to be submitted.

In the passage above, which answer choice best explains the use of the idiom, "way in over her head."

• Mrs. Schesventer kept the grades in a basket above her desk.

• Mrs. Schesventer needed Dr. Alarcon's assistance completing her grades.

• Mrs. Schesventer was very overwhelmed by the amount of work she needed to do.

• Mrs. Schesventer thought she had no more time to complete her grades.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Which of the following lines from Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” contains imagery?

• The woods are lovely, dark and deep
•  But I have promises to keep
• And miles to go before I sleep
• All of the above

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Let us go forth and lead the land we love..." contains an example of what type of figurative language?

• Mood

• Onomatopoeia

• Theme

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"I can’t do anything right."

What is meant by the hyperbole used above?

• The writer cannot do anything right.

• The writer believes that he will always ruin everything.

• The writer feels that he is repeatedly making mistakes.

• The writer hates himself.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"The gray of the sea, and the gray of the sky,

A glimpse of the moon like a half-closed eye."

What type of figurative language is used in the sentence above?

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D