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House on Mango Street Vocabulary Test

English

6th - 8th Grade

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House on Mango Street Vocabulary Test
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The word personification means...

an extreme exaggeration

giving human characteristics or qualities to animals, forces of nature, or objects.

a comparison using "like" or "as"

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Figurative language...

a figure of speech that compares without using the words "like" or "as"

giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or forces of nature

expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true but express some truth beyond the literal level.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A simile is

a comparison using the words "like" or "as" with two seemingly unlike things

extreme exaggeration

using clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words in a sentence

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of these is a metaphor?

The trees were bending like rubber bands in the wind.

The stars were as bright as fireworks on the Fourth of July

Their eyes were fiery red with golden streaks of anger.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which one of these is an example of a simile?

Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire, that's the way love goes.

He was angry because she took his toy.

The wind whispered through the trees last night.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of these is an example of personification?

The waves crashing sounded like my father pounding his hammer.

The wind whistled as it swept through the leaves in the trees.

The boy is funny as a clown.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a figure of speech?

a word or phrase not meant to be taken literally, but rather used for effect

extreme exaggeration

to restate briefly the most important points in a text.

undistorted by emotion or personal bias

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