Kinsley's ELA Midterm Review

A SIMILIE is best described:

• A comparison using the words "yes" or "no"

• An extreme exaggeration

• A comparison using the words "like" or "as"

A METAPHOR is best described :

• A comparison using "yes" or "no"

• A comparison between two things that do NOT have anything in common.

• A comparison between two unlike things that have something in common

• Using sarcasm to deliver a message

1. Choose the correct answer for each Signpost situation:

2. Isobel always gets her homework done. She is consistently on time, can be counted on to raise her hand in class, and takes pride in getting good grades. One day she slept in and missed block 1. Her classmates all whispered as she walked in the door, wondering what was the matter.

• Contrast and Contradiction

• A ha! Moment

• Words of the Wiser

• Memory Moment

An ONOMATOPOEIA is best described a

• The repetition of similar sounding words found in the same sentence

• The use of words that imitate sounds, and are usually spelled as they sound

• A figure of speech that gives human qualities to a thing, idea, or animal

• your mom

Read the following sentences and select which figure of speech is being used:

Kinsley kicked the ball and it flew toward the net like a rocket.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Simile

Read the following sentences and select which figure of speech is being used:

While it was only Wednesday, Wendy couldn't wait until the weekend

• similie

• alliteration

• metaphor

Read the following sentences and select which figure of speech is being used:

There’s enough food in the cupboard to feed an entire army

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Read the following sentences and select which figure of speech is being used:

The coronavirus pandemic has left us all alone together

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Read the following sentences and select which figure of speech is being used:

When Doug hit the ball into right field, John took off from third and ran like the wind.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

Read the following sentences and select which figure of speech is being used:

John could barely muster the strength to roll over when his alarm started BEEPING.

• Onomatopoeia

• Idium

• Allusion

• Your Mom