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"The Moon ballooning in the sky"
What does the metaphor in the line suggest?

• The Moon has a perfect shape
• The Moon appears to grow in size
• The Moon is brightly colored
• The Moon appears to move swiftly

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I recognized the familiar smell of my roommate's cooking. If you change the word smell to stench, the word now has a ____________ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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A figure of speech that compares two things that are alike in some way using “like” or “as.”

• simile
• 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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Alice was not happy with the product's promise of gradual weight loss. She wanted to lose all of her fat immediately.

• speedy
• slow
• extreme
• poor

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He was drowning and none of them could give _______because they did not know how to swim. Fortunately, there was a man fishing nearby. The man jumped into the water and saved him. Haikal and his friend learned their lesson the hard way. They shouldn't come to a place like this without their parents.

• a leg
• a hand
• a head
• an ear

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When Mary was 15, she was a fast runner. She _______ run 200 meters in 30 seconds. 

• can
• can't
• could
• couldn't

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The candle flame danced in the dark.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

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a sudden burst of temper

• brim

• sensible

• despair

• tantrum

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"There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake, and called Summit, of course." This is an example of....

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• this is not ironic

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