GMAS Review Questions 7th Grade ELA1

Figurative language is the opposite of literal language.

(a)  

• True
• False

Figurative language may be used in ___________.

• spoken language only

• poetry only

• sonnets only

• prose and poetry only

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

• exaggeration

• repetition

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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

• exaggeration

• repetition

• personification

• alliteration

A synonym for exaggeration is ____________.

• alliteration

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

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

• exaggeration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

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

• exaggeration

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• alliteration

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

• exaggeration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

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

• alliteration

• repetition

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Poems are divided into groups of lines called __________.

• paragraphs

• acts

• stanzas

• scenes