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What is the definition of the highlighted word?
The teacher was appalled, or disgusted, by the honey-covered homework the student turned in. 

• Pleased
• Surprised
• Frustrated
• Disgusted

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The smoke was a tight little knot on the horizon was was uncoiling slowly.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

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"The last day of school is like a day at the beach - easy and relaxing." The kind of figurative language used here is _______ 

• personification
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile

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Children and dogs and houses bloom
like crowded flowers,
This is an example of: 

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

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Why did Nick describe Gatsby's heart as being in a "constant, turbulent riot" (99) when he was young?

• Gatsby regretted not having gotten a good education
• Gatsby was very upset that he wasn't rich
• Gatsby secretly knew he had killed someone in his past
• He was still discovering who he was, what he valued, and what he wanted to do

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Ana had spent an unhappy night of tossing and turning. Yesterday, the wrong move had caused her to lose the volleyball match. As she sat up in bed the next morning, she could see the sun just peeking over the bushes in her back yard. As the sun rose higher and shined more brightly, Ana felt her spirits lifting. Feeling her confidence return, Ana thought to herself, I know I can work harder, and I'll make the team forget yesterday ever happened.

In this passage, the rising sun symbolizes—

• Ana's house

• volleyball

• a second chance

• a sleepless night

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The teacher futilely asked the students to be quiet as she reviewed. The students simply would not listen. Which of the following is a synonym for futilely?

• patiently

• carefully

• forcefully

• unsuccessfully

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The king is _____________

• fully-barbaric

• semi-barbaric

• fair and just

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(1) This week had been a shipwreck! (2) Monday greeted with a slap on the face as my alarm clock screamed at me to get up. (3) I woke up feeling as ragged as a old pair of holey shoes. (4) I got on my bus feeling like I'd stepped through Platform 9 3/4 into a Hogwarts experience. (5) First of all, math landed an uppercut with a Job-sized problem that had no solution. (6) My mathematician teacher assured me that if I just used my head as something besides a hat rack, I'd find the answer. (7) Then I trudged to English feeling like something the cat dragged, and my friend Paige (8) accidentally gave me a glue stick instead of chapstick. I'm still not talking to her. (9) Although it took forever and a day to get here, Friday finally showed up with her famously fat smile on her face.

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

• alliteration

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What does the word boast mean in the sentence below?

Susie does boast about her good grades too much.

• to chat

• to brag

• to study

• to complain

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