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Read the sentence. I can block the basketball well when someone is trying to make a basket. The word "block" has several meanings. What is the meaning of the word "block" in this sentence?

• a brick
• stop
• a square area
• fill

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What type of figurative language is shown?
The waiter served us a delicious plate of jumbo shrimp.

• alliteration
• personification
• oxymoron
• hyperbole

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True or False. Descriptive words are important because they add detail to the story.

• True
• False

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Which of the following terms bests describes Jim and Della's marriage?

• fiery
• difficult
• loving
• boring

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Describe Maria.

• Posh and overbearing 
• Rude and bossy
• Polish and silly
• Kind and obedient 

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The mailbox leaned unsteadily with its mouth gaping open.

• personification
• idiom
• allusion
• hyperbole

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Soldiers patiently waited in line to receive their government issued uniforms.
Which definition below is most closely aligned with how the word ISSUED is used in the sentence above?

•  to flow or to go out
• the act of going or flowing out
• an important topic or problem for debate or discussion
• supply or distribute

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I hope that the heavy rain starts to diminish by later this afternoon.  I am kind of tired of carrying my umbrella around so much. 

• increase
• precipitation
• decrease
• evening

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He overwhelmed the boxer with avalanches of punches.

• simile
• metaphor

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author's use this with descriptive words to create a picture in the reader's mind

• onomatopoeia
• imagery
• metaphor
• simile

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