6th Grade Literature Test 1

"All year long your moms has been on you like glue about algebra worksheets..."

• METAPHOR
• SIMILE
• PERSONIFICATION
• HYPERBOLE

"when the sun falls behind the ocean and the automatic park light come flickering on, spilling that strange yellow half-light across the cracked concrete"

• HYPERBOLE
• THEME
• SETTING
• IMAGERY

"Maybe words would just steal away your freedom to think for yourself."

• METAPHOR
• SIMILE
• PERSONIFICATION
• HYPERBOLE

"His intense eyes will be like knives inside your chest."

• SIMILE
• METAPHOR
• PERSONIFICATION
• IMAGERY

"It only takes two trips up and down before you shake off the cobwebs and slip into the flow."

• REPETITION
• METAPHOR
• SIMILE
• PERSONIFICATION

"You'll tear into the room you share with your sis and lay your hoop gear out on the chair by your bed like some kind of giddy schoolgirl..."

• FORESHADOWING
• SIMILE
• METAPHOR
• PERSONIFICATION

"But let's get something straight from the jump. This Muni Gym summer isn't going to be one continuous loop of 'One Shining Moment.' There'll be low points, too. On and off the court. Trust me."

• REPETITION
• IMAGERY
• FORESHADOWING
• EXPOSITION

"Butterflies will dance inside your chest."

• IMAGERY
• FORESHADOWING
• HYPERBOLE
• PERSONIFICATION

"But over the course of the summer you will soak up everything around you. And you will hear the brilliance. The poetry. The philosophy. The verbal dance of on-court banter. They will laugh harder and more often than anyone you've ever known. And you will laugh, too. Especially a few weeks into summer, when they turn their wrath on you."

• METAPHOR
• HYPERBOLE
• PLOT
• THEME

In what point of view is this story written?

• First-person point of view
• Second-person point of view
• Third-person limited point of view
• Third-person omniscient point of view