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Mike always had terrible aim. But after two summers at a baseball camp, he is now an adroit pitcher. 

• careless
• skillful
• inexperienced
• clumsy

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"A Ferrari I'm buyin' three
A closet of Saint Laurent, get what I want when I want cause hunger is driving me, yeah."
Is an example of...

• metaphor
• personification
• cliche
• assonance

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Tanya loved her dad, but she wondered why she was so organized when he was so haphazard.  A person who is haphazard is- 

• lost
• lovable 
• worried
• disorganized

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Look at the list of words below. Which of them carries the most positive connotation?
absorbed
obsessed
focused
interested

• absorbed
• obsessed
• focused
• interested

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Ms. Hearon bought all the pencils in the world, and Mr. Lawson took them from her. 

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

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I like to eat fish.

• Simile
• Not a simile

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"For she - yes, even she - would go out of the world willy-nilly someday." Which type of figurative language is being used with "willy-nilly"?

• metaphor
• simile
• alliteration
• assonance

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contradict

• to speak in agreement; to say the same thing; to agree
  
• to speak against; to say the opposite; to disagree
  

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What part of speech is the word "quiet" in the following lyric:

"I hear the drums echoing tonight, but she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation."

• Verb

• Noun

• Adjective

• Adverb

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"Her long hair is an ocean of waves" is an example of...

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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