2023 Spring Final: 10th Grade

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence: I could grow very still / Like an old stone on a hill

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• idiom

Identify the mood demonstrated with this textual evidence from "The Possibility of Evil": "Ran out of sugar for my cake frosting, "Mrs. Harper explained. her hand shook slightly as she opened her pocketbook. Miss Strangeworth wondered, glancing at her quickly, if she had been taking proper care of herself. Martha Harper was not as young as she used to be, Miss Strangeworth thought. She probably could use a good strong tonic. "Martha," she said, "you don't look well." "I'm perfectly all right," Mrs. Harper said shortly.

• giddy
• gloomy
• weird
• annoyed

Identify the mood demonstrated with this textual evidence from "Harrison Bergeron." "It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and Empress were dead before they hit the floor."

• sad
• frustrated
• cheerful
• loving

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence: Your beauty was a web of frail delight.

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• idiom

Identify the tone demonstrated with this textual evidence. "Miss Strangeworth never gave away any of her roses, although the tourists often asked her. The roses belonged on Pleasant Street, and it bothered Miss Strangeworth to think of people wanting to take them into strange towns and down strange streets."

• concerned
• confused
• tolerant
• joyful

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence: I got up on the wrong side of the bed.

• personification
• simile
• idiom
• metaphor

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence: Don't worry about Alex; she's all bark and no bite.

• idiom
• personification
• hyperbole
• simile

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence: Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog.

• idiom
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence: The earth is the cup of the sun, / That filleth at morning

• personification
• idiom
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence: Oh, never, if I live to a million, / Shall I feel such a grievous pain

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom