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Connotation is a word's ___________.

• synonym
• emotional meaning
• antonym
• Literal, dictionary definition.

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Max is a pig when he eats.
This is an example of a/an: 

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

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Captain Beatty says, “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.  Burn it. Breach man’s mind.  Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” (58). This extended metaphor implies that:

• Books help humans to expand their minds and reach their full potential.
• Without books, mankind is lost.
• Books influence people to engage in crime.
• Books do more harm than good; they give people ideas, which make them dangerous.

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The poem has all of the following forms of figurative language except. . .

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

• personification 
• metaphor 
• simile
• repetition

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If you identify with someone, you feel a _______________ with that person.

• spark
• friendship
• connection
• recognition

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“Suddenly, the sirens began to scream.” 
What type of figurative language is this example?

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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Read the passage and answer the question:
“There were always children there, and I spent all my time with the children, only with the children. They were the children of the village where I lived, a whole gang of them who went to the local school. I was simply with them mostly, and I spent all my four years like that. I did not want anything else.”   --Dostoyevsky, The Idiot 
Which word best describes the tone?

• Concerned
• Reflective
• Reverent
• Remorseful

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Customer: "Do you have any samples of the new Versace cologne?"
Salesman: "Yes! We have a ton of those in the back. Let me go get you some."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification 
• hyperbole

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The sunflowers nodded in the wind.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

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A portion of the sign protrudes beyond the corner of the building, presenting an obstacle for every passerby.

• becomes invisible

• twists

• sticks out

• reappears

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