Context Clues and Figurative Language Review

Read the sentence below. Then find the definition for the underlined word that fits the context of the sentence in which the word appears. Select the correct answer below. "There were no stars either, in this blackest of nights, and Miguel's desert steed began to stumble blindly as the brute force overcame them."

• scenery that is in view

• strong and unreasoning

• painting of natural land or the countryside

• mean or violent person

Read the sentence below. Then find the definition for the underlined word that fits the context of the sentence in which the word appears. Select the correct answer below. "All was wright with the world again, and Miguel felt renewed strength and wonder at the landscape before him..."

• painting of natural land or the countryside

• strong and unreasoning

• scenery that is in view

• mean or violent person

How does the poet use figurative language to portray the violets?

• She describes the violets in great detail, especially the great variety in their sizes.

• She criticizes the violets because they represent spring, a season she misses terribly.

• She personifies the violets, giving the flowers human qualities

• She uses the violets as a symbol of death and decay because they last such a short time.

Select ONE phrase from the beginning of the poem below the at most directly shows the figurative language you chose in number 5.

• I dip my hands in April among your faces tender,

• O woven of blue air and ecstasies of light!

• Breathed words of the Earth-Mother--although it is November--

• You wing my soul with memories adorable and white.

Juana's dark eyes swam like fish behind her tinted glasses. What is being compared in this simile?

• eyes and glasses

• eyes and fish

• fish and glasses

The line, “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain” from My Fair Lady is an example of which type of figurative language?

• personification

• alliteration

• assonance

• repetition

Hermione was like a walking dictionary.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• rhythm

What type of figurative language is used in the sentence below. Now I realize that I must have been assaulted by a tall, aggressive truck.

• methaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

What is being personified in this example? The lighthouse winked its message of safety. The monster had slipped back into the ocean. Stormalong and his crew would wait another day to defeat the monster.

• the crew

• the ocean

• the monster

• the lighthouse

How does Miguel react when he thinks there is another storm?

• He ignores all of the emotions he is feeling.

• He jumps into immediate action.

• He almost dies from the thought of it.

• He becomes motionless with fear

• He is cold and unforgiving