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Which word is a synonym for the red word?
The big, blue house is on the corner.

• small
• huge
• polka dot
• round

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Simile or Metaphor?
The assignment was a breeze.

• simile
• metaphor

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

• simile
• metaphor

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

• idiom
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

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Is the following a simile or not?
William likes funny clowns. 

• simile
• not

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Is this a pun?

• True
• False

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Assert

• to declare or state as truth, maintain or defend, put forward forcefully

• an area of authority or control;

• nearness, closeness

• to grind or pound to a powder or dust; to destroy or overcome (as though by smashing into fragments)

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Which choice below shows the words in the correct order of intensity (weakest to strongest)?

• thrilled, happy, ecstatic

• ecstatic, thrilled, happy

• happy, thrilled, ecstatic

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Which of these lines by Gary Soto uses a simile?

• “I was making a fire in my hands.”

• “Fog hanging like old / Coats between the trees.”

• “That was so bright against / The gray of December”

• “Bringing a saleslady / Down a narrow aisle of goods.”

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figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things, without using like or as

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

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