GED Language Arts

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.

• His room looked as if a hurricane came through.

• A hurricane! AHHH!

• The hurricane screamed through the town.

Manuever means to ____.

• regress

• manipulate

• rotate

• quit

Complete this sentence. "What do you think they will do when they see ____ stuff is gone?"

• thare

• they're

• their

• there

When a sentence does not sound complete and is missing basic building blocks for clear writing then it is considered a ____.

• incomplete

• changed

• frazzled

• fragment

He, she, it, they, them are examples of a ___.

• noun

• subject

• object

• pronoun

A compound subject consists of _____ simple subjects.

• a

• one

• two or more

• only

Instead of a grimace, Sally had a big smile across her face.

The word grimace means...

• grin

• hat

• frown

• mask

When he didn’t understand the instructions, the student asked the teacher to CLARIFY them.
Clarify means:

• remove

• call

• explain

• stop

Based on the context clues in the passage below, eliminate means ________________.

Please eliminate the blank lines between the pictures.  They were not supposed to be there. 

• Color

• Add

• Find

• Delete