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The girls went to the library and read three books in one afternoon. They were voracious readers.  
What does the word voracious mean as it is used in the text?

• lazy
• helpful
• avid 
• happy

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What is the definition of atone?

• To be forgiven
• To make up for past mistakes
• To get back at someone who has done you wrong.
• the feelings that an author communicates about a subject

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I have a head and a tail. People often say I am #1. I am made of copper. I am lucky if you pick me up. What am I?

• four leaf clover

• leaf

• penny

• dime

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I heard a loud BOOM outside my window.

• personification
• simile
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

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Tonya was relaxing with a magazine when her father walked in, looking perturbed and sounding annoyed, too. What words give you clues to the meaning of perturbed?

• can you help me
• her father walked in 
• sounding annoyed, too
• relaxing with a magazine

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"I'm so hungry I could eat a whole cow" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• stanza
• onomatopoeia

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What mood do the word convey:
Exhilarating
Lively
Energetic

• exciting
• angry
• worried
• loving

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Now that the whales had escaped, they could swim freely and roam the ocean unrestrained.

• not hungry
• under control
• bound
• not bound or under control

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What is the use of words and phrases in an unusual way?  Writers often use this to make their writing more colorful, powerful, and interesting.  Examples include simile, metaphor, irony, and personification.

• Text Features 
• Sensory Images 
• Figurative Language 
• Rhyming Couplet

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Because of her helpfulness and easy manner, everyone found the new student to be simpatico.

• boring

• weird

• shy

• likable

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