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"You are the apple of my eye" is an example of 

• a simile
• a metaphor
• an analogy
• personification

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Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• personification
• symbolism
• hyperbole
• alliteration

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However, without a known cause or cure, CCD remains a conundrum. A conundrum is a-

• cost of food.
• known cause.
• puzzling problem.
• cure for a disease.

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Mrs. Carlson thought her explanations were clear and concise, but everyone found them to be unfathomable. 

• hard to understand
• easy to laugh at
• hard to believe
• easy to listen to

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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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What type of figurative language is used is the following quote?
"One day when we came back from work, we saw three gallows rearing up in the assembly place, three black crows." 

• simile 
• personification 
• metaphor 
• alliteration 

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"He's so honest, you might as well call him Abe!" is an example of 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Allusion 

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What is symbolized by the black dot?

• Tradition
• Death 
• Faith 
• Mankind

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Since neither of them could complete the scheme alone, he kidnappers had to ______.

• collaborate
• comply
• commend
• diatribe

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Read this stanza from the poem:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings,

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

To what does the pronoun "them" refer?

• "winning"

• "pitch and toss"

• "beginnings"

• "heart and nerve and sinew"

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