Revision Reading Final Gambate

There are 50 states in the United States.

• Fact

• Opinion

Monkeys are so cute.

• Fact

• Opinion

There are 650 members of Parliament in the UK House of Commons.

• Opinion

• Fact

In 1970/ over 30000 children were enrolled in day-care programs in Miami-Dade County.

• Fact

• Opinion

Johny Carson, the greatest talk show host of them all, became the host of The Tonight Show in 1962.

• Opinion

• Fact

Medsker discovered that 4- year colleges draw about 1/4 of their freshmen from the upper 40% of the high school graduates classes.

• Fact

• Opinion

The old car woke reluctantly from its overnight sleep. Coughing and sputtering, it finally broke into a loud roar.

• Personification

• Simile

• Irony

• Metaphor

After Marshall climbed three flights of stairs, he had to sit down. He was a puffing steam engine.

• Metaphor

• Understatement

• Metonymy

• Irony

The Yankees have been throwing the ball really well, and they have been hitting better than they have been in the past few seasons.

• Metonymy

• Hyperbole

• Synecdoche

• Personification

"The brains helped me with my homework." Mike blurted out in a such matter-of-fact tone.

• Synecdoche

• Metaphor

• Understatement

• Simlie