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What is a hyperbole?

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in teh same phrase.
• A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.
• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.
• The use of words that imitate sounds.

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She is walking on eggshells means...

• She is learning how to walk.
• She is in the chicken coop.
• She is trying not to upset anyone.

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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 the "tone" of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject
• The time and place of the story
• The summary of events in the story

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I was so parched, I drank an entire glass of water in one gulp.

• hungry
• thirsty
• sleepy

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"Time flies by!" The kind of figurative language used here is _______ 

• idiom
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

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Imagery is descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures. 

• true
• false

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Which connotation is MORE positive?
Everyone had a _____ on his or her face on the way home.

• smile
• smirk

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What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

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The brains helped with my homework.

• metonymy

• synecdoche

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