Unit 5 Vocabulary Test

What type of figurative language is being represented in the following quotation?

"...as the ship seemed to right herself like a hurt animal with a broken back."

Which sentence best expresses the author's feelings of both pride and sadness about the ship Titantic?

• "I tried to make myself believe it could not be true, all this."

• "Some men nearby were throwing things over the side-deck chairs, rafts or any wooden thing lying nearby."

• "Then she went down by the head with a thundering roar of underwater explosions, our proud ship, our beautiful Titantic gone to her doom.

• "Desperately, I turned to where that ship's lights shone on the horizon; surely they should be getting nearer by now."

1. The sound of crying from the ship was _____________ to hear.

• hard

• fascinating

• agonizing

• exciting

With _____________, he turned in his incomplete test.

• feedback

• reluctance

• triumph

• reassurance

_________________, she splashed paint all over the canvas.

• Reluctantly

• Stoically

• Unrestrainedly

• Unexpectedly

Complete the sentence:

I had a _______________ of a prior car accident, as my car ________ to the right of the road.

• thought,

  went

• flashback,

  veered

• remembrance,

  swerved

• circumstance, veered

The coach takes time to __________his players before the game. This causes an _____________ on how they perform.

• shoulder,

  reassure

• fascinate,

  impact

• impact,

  foreshadow

• reassure,

  impact

Which word matches the definition?

To do something without control

• Reluctance

• Unrestrainedly

• Confounded

• Hesitate

You are a ____________nuisance. Stop pestering me

• constraint

• annoying

• aggravating

• confounded

After receiving bad news, the girl walked around___________. Shortly thereafter, she began to ___________ on the ground and cry profusely.