Shoots, English Final Exam Review

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence:

My mother's hair was a beehive.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence:

Happy tears of joy tickled my cheeks.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence:

Instead of speeding towards the finish line, the last sprinter ran as slow as molasses.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• Does not contain figurative language

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence:

I like macaroni and cheese.

• Does not contain figurative language.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence:

"I reached down. The grains of sand felt very fine, almost like powder."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

I would walk a million miles is an example of ......

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteraion

Justice just jump-roped through the jungle is an example of a

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

Choose which words show POSITIVE diction in the following sentence:

"I remember that at one point my fear turned to anger. Anger at Timothy for not letting me stay in the water with my mother, and anger at her because I was on the raft. I began hitting him.

• not letting me stay in the water

• fear, anger,

• Mother, remember, raft

• hitting him

Choose the words that show NEGATIVE diction on the following sentence.

Red and green gift-wrapped boxes of all sizes rested beneath the Christmas tree.  “Yippeee!” beamed the young child whose mother quickly chased her out of the living room.  Good tidings had spread throughout their neighborhood.  Gifts galore would be opened the next morning.

• Christmas tree, "Yippee"

• good tidings spread

• quickly chased

• gift-wrapped boxes

Which word does NOT depict the tone in the following passage:

“I remember that at one point my fear turned to anger. Anger at Timothy for not letting me stay in the water with my mother, and anger at her because I was on the raft.  I began hitting him…”

• angry

• joy

• frustrated

• violent