GMAS Review Questions 7th Grade ELA1

Figurative language is the opposite of literal language.

(a)  

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Figurative language may be used in ___________.

• spoken language only

• poetry only

• sonnets only

• prose and poetry only

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Using a sound word or phrase more than once is known as ___________.

• exaggeration

• repetition

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a writer intentionally stretches the truth, he/she is using __________.

• exaggeration

• repetition

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A synonym for exaggeration is ____________.

• alliteration

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

When a writer repeats a consonant sound a the beginning of several words in a row, he/she is using ___________.

• exaggeration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Slowly, softly, smiling, came the breeze..."

• exaggeration

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"His legs were long enough to straddle the Empire State Building." What writing technique is being used?

• exaggeration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Bang, bang, bang, went the door..." What writing technique is being used.

• alliteration

• repetition

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Poems are divided into groups of lines called __________.

• paragraphs

• acts

• stanzas

• scenes

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5