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What SIMILE does George use to describe Lennie? 

• as cuckoo as a clock
• as strong as a bull
• as lazy as a cow
• mean like a bear

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Piggy compares seeing Jack to  _______________

• Like having an asthma attack and not the inhaler
• Like asthma and you can't breathe
• Like having asthma
• Like having breathing problems.

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"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."

• Romeo
• Nurse
• Mercutio
• Friar Lawrence

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TEKS.ELA.9-12.II.C.2

Madame Schachter's visions about fire are an example of what?

• metaphor
• irony
• simile
• foreshadowing

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You are my sunshine. 

• You make happy. 
• You upset me. 

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Exclaiming “Oh great!” after failing an exam

• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• situational irony
• none of the above

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At the start of Act 2 Scene 2, Romeo gives a long speech about Juliet as he watches her on the balcony. During this speech, what does he compare Juliet to?

• An angel
• The Sun
• A jewel
• All of these

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personification

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

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The title of the essay, “ A Modest Proposal,” is an example of

• understatement

• overstatement

• caricature

• None of these

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Read the source of the allusion.

In Greek mythology, the gods send Pandora a box and tell her never to open it. Out of curiosity, Pandora opens it. The box is filled with evils that are let loose into the world.

What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?

Buying that beat-up old car was like opening Pandora's box.

• a fun or interesting project

• a source of many problems

• a window into the past

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