FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE REVIEW

Choose the meaning for this idiom: The meeting completely slipped my mind.

• The meeting was cancelled.

• The meeting was late.

• I forgot to go to the meeting.

• I slipped and fell.

Choose the correct meaning for this idiom:

Are you having second thoughts about going on vacation?

• Are you changing your mind about going on Vacation?

• Are you thinking about going to two places?

• Are your vacation plans coming second in order of importance?

• Are you thinking about going away on vacation after you plan it out?

Choose the meaning of this idiom:

If you want to be an artist you should give it a shot.

• Take more art classes.

• Go to the doctor and get a flu shot.

• IF you think your are talented in art talk to an artist.

• IF you want to be an artist, work hard and try to reach that goal.

Choose the meaning of this idiom:

Karen's mother baked her birthday cake from scratch.

• Karen had to scratch the cake.

• Karen's mother learned how to bake.

• Karen's mother made the cake from all homemade ingredients.

• Karen went to the bakery and bought a cake.

Choose the meaning of this idiom:

I saw Mark at the store, but he gave me the cold shoulder.

• Mark did not talk to me or act like he knew me.

• Mark had a shoulder injury.

• IT was cold outside and Mark needed a coat.

• Mark did not see me and turned up his shoulders.

Choose the meaning of this idiom:

You should choose friends who will stay with you through thick and thin.

• Choose friends that are tall and thin.

• Choose friends who stay in your house.

• Choose friends who eat thin and thick foods.

• Choose friends who stay with you during the good and bad times.

Choose the sentence with personification.

• It was as heavy as a rock.

• His heart was a block of ice.

• The cup danced joyfully across the table

• She was as cute as a kitten!

Find the sentence with hyperbole in it.

• It took a million years to finish my homework!

• The city was a jungle!

• She was a kite, flying high with happiness!

• Like a silent thief, the dog crept into the kitchen.

Find the sentence with a simile.

• The dark, cold room was an empty tomb.

• The sunshine was a blanket.

• Susan likes labrador retrievers.

• My noisy sister was like a buzzing fly.

FInd the sentence with personification in it.

• She was humming a song.

• The wind blew steady for three days before the hurricane hit the shore.

• The table fell over and broke.

• THe dog barked loudly at the squirrel.