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The boy liked to play video games.

• simile
• not a simile

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"Your words cut deeper than a knife
Now I need someone to breathe me back to life." Is an example of...

• personification
• cliche
• metaphor
• alliteration

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What metaphor does Pa Tuck use in comparison to the lake?

• He compares enemies with flesh-eating piranha.
• Water, like life, looks the same.  But it's really always in motion.
• Water is cold and dark, just like life.
• The surface reveals the soul, like a mirror.

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In the film and book Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte explains to Wilbur that all living things eventually die. Charlotte then has to spin a web to save Wilbur’s life. In the process of spinning her web, Charlotte expends all her energy and dies.

• Allusion & Imagery
• Simile & Metaphor
• Foreshadowing & Irony
• Personification & Mood

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Simile or Metaphor:
My life is a dream.

• simile
• metaphor

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An obvious and impossible exaggeration is:

• hyperbole
• simile
• idiom
• personification

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William knew that he shouldn't have eaten the last cookie out of the cookie jar. He knew that his father loved to eat chocolate chip cookies after work, but William ate the last one anyway. Now as he waited for his father to come home, guilt poked and chewed at William. As delicious as the cookie was, William now wished that he had never opened that cookie jar. What is personified?

• The cookie jar

• The cookies

• Guilt

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Dad was like a big teddy bear.

• Simile

• Metaphor

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What does the figurative language "throw in my glove" mean in paragraph 2?

• To quit.

• To celebrate at the end of a game.

• To put your hand on everyone else's in a huddle.

• To throw a baseball.

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Read the following poem:

"The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

"He clasps the crag with crooked hands;

Close to the sun in lonely lands

Ring'd with the azure world he stands

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls..."

This passage contains all of the following EXCEPT:

• Sight imagery

• Sound imagery

• Touch imagery

• Personification

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