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I hear the pigs OINK as we drive past the farm.

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• simile

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"The table played a cruel joke on Mrs. Cook when it collapsed as she placed her coffee on it."
What human characteristic is being given?

• Playing
• Collapsing
• Not liking coffee
• Tabling

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Simile or Metaphor:
My father is a bear in the morning.

• simile
• metaphor

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Pick the hyperbole below:

• Can't you get this question correct?
• Mr. Smith is older than the hills.
• I went skating last Tuesday.
• Marcella was very, very cold. 

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"Time flies by!" The kind of figurative language used here is _______ 

• idiom
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

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Gretel didn't rise to the bait on that one. Is an example of?

• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor
• simile

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"I am as hungry as a bear!" The kind of figurative language used here is _______ 

• simile and personification
• personification
• simile
• metaphor

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I'm reading a book about anti-gravity.  I can't put it down.
Pun?

• Yes
• No

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Kelly was so happy that Tom and she were moving in together, but when she walked into her new residence, she dropped her suitcase. She had never seen the inside of the house which Tom's grandmother had given them, and though she was grateful to receive such a nice gift, the ugly yellow wallpaper in the kitchen screamed at her. She knew she would have a lot of work to do to make her new house livable. What is being personified?

• The suitcase

• The wallpaper

• The gift

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Read this quote about the missing trees from the first chapter: "Their absence made everything look different, like a fresh haircut exposing a ban of untanned skin on a forehead." What figurative language is used?

• simile

• metaphor

• repetition

• allusion

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