Test Taking and Figurative Language

What is tip # 2 of the test taking strategies?

• Answer the questions that you know first

• Go with your first choice

• Read the questions carefully and critically

• Eliminate the wrong answers

What is tip # 3 of the test taking strategies?

• Read the question first

• Answer all the questions

• Go with your first choice

• Read the question aloud

What is tip # 4 of the test taking strategies?

• Think positive

• Double check your answers

• Reread the passage

• Read the passage first

Which one is a hyperbole (a huge exaggeration)?

• Push and pull like a magnet do

• Raining cats and dogs

• A hot one like standing seven inches from the sun

• I must of call a thousand times

Which one is personification (giving human qualities to non human objects)?

• Break a leg

• If the heavens ever did speak

• I used to bite my tongue

• I used to hold my breath

Which one is alliteration (the occurrence of the same letter or letter sound)?

• Scared to rock the boat

• Sunday's getting more bleak, a fresh poison each week

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear

Which one is a simile (compares two things using "like", "as", or "than")?

• I love you like a love song

• She is a blind bat

• Shoot for the stars

• There are a billion stars in the sky

Which one is an idiom (a phrase that does not mean what it says)?

• She swam like a fish

• Sally is a fish out of water

• I will bite my tongue

• The friends were vibrant rays of sun

Which one is a metaphor?

• She is a fish out of water

• She swam like a fish out of water

• I love you like a love song

• Push and pull like a magnet do

Which one is onomatopoeia (a word that makes a sound)?

• Hey

• Big

• Pow

• Sit