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What is 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 lost campers sweltered in the heat of the desert sun.

• ate

• burned

• slept

• sunbathed

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What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"
• A comparison without using "like" or "as"
• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
• An extreme exaggeration

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"But only so an hour" means
(think about what it means non-literally)

• leaves only live for an hour
• some change happens quickly
• flowers only live for an hour
• it is only spring for an hour

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Crash, bang, buzz, swish, and splash are all examples of what type of figurative language?

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron
• Assonance

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What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"
• A comparison without using "like" or "as"
• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
• An extreme exaggeration

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"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

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"The stars will cry." 
The kind of figurative language used here is _______ 

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

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I am so hungry I could eat a slice of pie.

• Hyperbole

• Not a Hyperbole

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3. Why does the author refer to the people in their homes as “gray phantoms?”

• A. he’s implying that they are full of life

• B. he’s implying that they are lifeless

• C. he’s implying that they are curious

• D. he’s implying that they are scared

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