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What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

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Which connotation is MORE positive?
Some of the monkeys made ______ faces.

• amusing
• hilarious

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This quiz is a breeze. 

• simile
• parody 
• metaphor
• diction

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The poem compares "exit" to

• birth
• life
• doors
• death

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It bent in a slant against the weight.

• assonance
• consonance
• none
• rhyme

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deafening silence

• oxymoron 
• paradox
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration 

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How is caged bird an extended metaphor?

• the caged bird is a metaphor to show the feelings of hopelessness of someone who has lost their freedom.

• Maya is using figurative language to create an image for the reader of a bird in a cage.

• the caged bird does not name the sky or claim the sky for his own.

• the free bird is a metaphor and a symbol of freedom

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What does the author mean by "shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet"?

• It gets very hot in the summer.

• If you steal money to buy shoes, eventually the guilt will burn your feet.

• If you steal, your shoes will become too hot and burn your feet.

• The stolen shoes will be ugly.

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"Oh he's so beautiful--such a beautiful disaster," sings Kelly Clarkson.

• oxymoron

• paradox

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What is personification?

• A person emphasizing something in a poem.

• An object or animal taking on human characteristics.

• A type of poem that tells about a person's life.

• A type of poetry that uses metaphors to describe a person.

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