4th Grade Language Skills W

4th Grade Language Skills W

Dictionary skills, prepositions/prepositional phrases, similes, metaphors, adjective order​

By Laura Miller

Multiple Choice

If we pool all of our money, we will

have enough for the newest game!

• Meaning 1

• Meaning 2

• Meaning 3

• Meaning 4

Multiple Choice

Use this hammer to pound the nail into the wall.

• Meaning 1

• Meaning 2

• Meaning 3

• Meaning 4

Multiple Choice

What part of a dictionary entry is circled?

• Definition

• Example

• Part of speech

• Pronunciation

Multiple Choice

How many definitions does the word "knot" have?

• 5

• 4

• 3

• 6

Multiple Choice

How many of these definitions are verbs?

• 2

• 3

• 1

• none

Multiple Choice

Identify the preposition that tells the DIRECTION in the underlined phrase below.

He jumped over the wall.

• over

• the

• wall

Multiple Choice

Identify the preposition that tells the TIME in the underlined phrase below.

She woke up before dawn.

• before

• dawn

Multiple Choice

Identify the preposition that tells LOCATION in the sentence below.

The little girl played under the table.

• played

• under

• the

• table

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?

The pencil that fell off the desk was yellow.

• off the desk
• fell off the desk
• was yellow
• pencil that fell

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?

The clock, in my grandma's, house was broken last week.

• broken last week
• grandma's house was
• in my grandma's house
• house was broken

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence?

My best friend lives on Walnut Road.

• My best friend
• on Walnut Road
• best friend lives
• lives on Walnut Road

Similes

compare two different things by saying one is LIKE the other

ALWAYS USE "AS" or "LIKE"

Metaphors

Compares two things by saying one thing IS the other.

Multiple Choice

What two things are being compared in the following metaphor?
Her diary was her best friend, guarding her secrets quietly.

• "best friend" and "secrets"
• "diary'' and "secrets" 
• "Diary" and "her best friend"
• "her" and "diary" 

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the following Simile?
Sylvia's new lotion made her face as smooth as a baby's skin.

• Sylvia's face was really rough.
• Sylvia's face was really smooth. 
• Sylvia's face was oily. 
• Sylvia's face was really dry. 

Multiple Choice

Simile or Metaphor?
The assignment was a breeze.

• simile
• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Simile or Metaphor?
This house is as clean as a whistle.

• simile
• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Identify the simile.

• The busy store is a beehive.
• He was a broken record.
• The hurricane was a monster.
• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Multiple Choice

Identify the metaphor.

• He was as slow as a snail.
• Her temper tantrum was a tornado passing through the Midwest.
• She ran like the wind.
• That building is as old as the pyramids.

​Example:

​He is wearing an expensive long brown Italian cotton jacket.

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1. ​A small red suitcase.

2. ​The new blue silk T-shirt.

3. ​An ugly wooden chair.

4. ​This round new kitchen table.

5. ​A comfortable new velvet dress.

6. ​These lovely old ceramic mugs.

7. ​That beautiful German sports car.

8. ​Those amazing heart-shaped red balloons.

9. ​A wonderful old French clock.

​Examples:

Multiple Choice

I saw a ______ on TV last night.

• program really good

• really good program

Multiple Choice

This chicken doesn't _________.

• very good smell

• smell very good

• good smell very

Multiple Choice

They're building a _________next to our home.

• factory big

• big factory