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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's the meaning of this personification?
"The camera loves me!"

• Photography is one of my hobbies.
• I own an expensive camera.
• Photos of me are always really good. 
• I like to visit art museums.

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A day without you is like a year without rain.

• simile
• metaphor 

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*Strange, odd or unusual.

• outrage
• peculiar
• cahoots
• ordeal

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When something that you don't expect, an opposite outcome of what is expected

• Idiom
• conflict
• Irony
• none of the above

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To keep separate or apart

• segregate
• integrate

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How does the diction of Simon Wheeler and the narrator contribute to the development of the story?

• Simon and the unnamed narrator are from different regions.
• Simon and the unnamed narrator have different speech patterns.
• The different types of characters sets up the deception presented in the story.
• The two speech patterns distinguish the two men as different and vulnerable.

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Choose the word to best complete the example sentence. EXAMPLE: Jorge never gives up. I think it is wonderful that he is so __________________. (RL 6.4)

• jealous

• determined

• bull-headed

• stubborn

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“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

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“Meg knelt at her mother’s feet. The warmth and light of the kitchen had relaxed her so that her attic fears were gone. The cocoa steamed fragrantly in the saucepan; geraniums bloomed on the window sills and there was a bouquet of tiny yellow chrysanthemums in the center of the table. The curtains, red, with a blue and green geometrical pattern were drawn and seemed to reflect their cheerfulness throughout the room. The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal; the lights glowed with steady radiance…” (16)

Which words create the mood?

• Warmth

• Light

• Relaxed

• Saucepan

• Purred; Sleepy

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