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Figurative Language:
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost"

• Metaphor 
• Simile
• Irony
• Oxymoron

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How does the narrator feel when he first sees the house?

• Gloom
• Terror
• Excitement
• Exhaustion

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Create an  angry tone-- "Be sitting in your seat before the bell rings," ___________ Mrs. Walker.

• yelled
• said
• whispered
• asked

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George Orwell's novel 1984 focuses on a totalitarian society in which the citizens are frequently reminded that their leader, Big Brother, is always watching.
What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?
The headline read: "Smart Phones Becoming Big Brother." 

• A nuisance that distracts people from important tasks
  
• An important system that helps people stay safe
• A threatening power that monitors all aspects of people's lives 
• All of the above

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When she visited the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., Lindsey noticed that her fellow visitors were very quiet and reverential. 
Which word is not a synonym for the word reverential?

• respectful
• solemn
• admiring
• impolite

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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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When Shakespeare says:
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
This is an example of:

• a simile
• a metaphor
• alliteration
• idiom

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Some people don't like change, while others are able to "go with the flow" and be flexible. These "go with the flow" people can be described as _____.

• inflammatory

• extenuating

• nonchalant

• malleable

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The author's attitude conveyed by a piece of literature is...

• theme

• tone

• author's purpose

• main idea

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Refers to the feelings and ideas a word evokes.

• Synonym

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Diction

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