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What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

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An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true and is not meant to be taken literally 

• personification
• simile
• hyperbole
• prose

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Pete was envious of his brother's new bicycle.

• jealous
• confident
• comfortable

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This figure of speech compares two unlike things using like or as to help make the comparison.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

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Simile or Metaphor:
My mother's hair is as soft as a cloud.

• simile
• metaphor

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Based on context clues in the passage below, trifle means ______________.

Her cat was dying, and she worried about a trifle like her torn dress!

• Little
• Giant
• Everything
• Hopeful

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What describes one thing as if it were something else.

• Simile 
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia 

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The Florida legislature believes that it has the power to choose the winner of the election if the courts haven't finished their work by December 12. Both houses are controlled by Republicans and they would surely resolve the matter in Bush's favor. What does resolve mean?

• cancel

• consider

• debate

• settle

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Ambivalent means that

• The teacher can do two things at once

• An animal can live on both land and water

• You are stuck between both answer choices

• You are sure of both answer choices

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What are words or phrases repeated throughout the poem?

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• repetition

• rhyme

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