English Final Exam

1. What is the correct definition of a simile?

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• A phrase that contrasts two objects.

• A comparison using the words “like” or “as”.

• A comparison NOT using the words “like” or “as”.

2. What is the correct definition of a metaphor?

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• A phrase that contrasts two objects.

• A comparison using the words “like” or “as”.

• A comparison NOT using the words “like” or “as”.

3. What is the correct definition of personification?

• Making reference to a character from another text in order to show a comparison

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• A phrase that contrasts two objects

• All of the above

What is the correct definition of hyperbole?

• A word that imitates a sound

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• A comparison NOT using the words “like” or “as

• An extreme exaggeration

What is the correct definition of onomatopoeia?

• A word that imitates a sound.

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• A comparison using the words “like” or “as”.

• None of the above.

What is the correct definition of an idiom?

• An expression that means more than it is

• A word that imitates a sound

• An extreme exaggeration

• None of the Above

What is the correct definition of alliteration?

• A word that imitates a sound

• An extreme exaggeration

• The repetition of beginning sounds

• Giving human characteristics of inanimate objects

8. What is the correct definition of irony

• A comparison using the words “like” or “as

• Giving human characteristics of inanimate objects

• Making reference to a character from another text in order to show a comparison

• When the opposite of what you expect occurs

Identify the sentence type in the following:

9. She smiled sweetly, and he grinned shyly

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Identify the sentence type in the following:

Mary and Tom agreed to meet after school.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex