Review 4/1

What is an Onomatopoeia?

• A literary device in which a word imitates the sound it names

• A comparison using like or as.

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of nearby words.

What word is the Onomatopoeia in this sentence?

There was a loud vroom as he revved the engine.

• revved

• vroom

• loud

"When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her."
What is being personified?

• High Heels
• The store

"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."
What is being personified?

• The walls
• The scream

What is a simile?

• a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

• a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

• An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

• a type of poem in which two things are compared

Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor?

• The house was a carnival

• The house was noisy like a carnival

• The house had a carnival-like atmosphere

• The carnival moved into the house

Which of the following sentences contains a simile?

• She was a gazelle

• She ran faster than a gazelle

• A gazelle couldn't run faster than she did

• She was as graceful as a gazelle

She likes to read and she likes beads

To her mother she only pleads

To let her lead the house deeds

Even the need to plant seeds.

Is it an alliteration?

• Yes

• No

For my genre challenge, I read a _____________________________________ about Sam Davis, and I learned some really interesting information about him.

• autograph

• phonograph

• seismograph

• biography

I wasn't sure how to pronounce the word bass because it's a _________________________________. I figured out to pronounce it with a short a sound because the context clues were about a fish, not a deep singing voice.

• autograph

• homograph

• paragraph

• phonograph