Middle School

isolated

• right or correct

• kept apart or alone

• very excited

• achieved or desired result

disappointing

• feeling let down

• believed that something would happen

• of great worth

• managed to handle something difficult

Ernesto practiced basketball so hard that he ____ in becoming the best player in his team.

• succeeded

• enthusiastic

• disappointing

• expected

It was so ____ for fans to see their team lose again.

• disappointing

• enthusiastic

• succeeded

• isolated

Choose the sentence with the correct comma placement.

• On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

• On the morning of December 7, 1941 the Japanese attached Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

• On the morning of December 7 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Hawaii.

Choose the sentence with correct comma placement.

• I was born on January 5 2000, at midnight.

• I was born on January 5, 2000, at midnight.

• I was born on January 5, 2000 at midnight.

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things

• An exaggerated statement

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes

• compares two unlike things using the words like or as

• compares two similar things 

• tells what a person is doing

the repetition of the initial consonant sound in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

which is the best example of alliteration?

• Only three girls came to the picnic.

• She wants to see that movie.

• I like popcorn, peanuts, and Pepsi when I watch movies.

• The sun was in my eyes all day and I got a headache!