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What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Humorous
• Persuasive
• Anxious
• Cheerful

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What kind of figurative language is being used?
I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

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A reference to a well-known work of literature, art, music, etc. is what type of figurative language?

• Personification
• Idiom
• Allusion
• Assonance

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"The gentle giant jumped in jubilation" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Personification
• Imagery

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In Greek mythology, Achilles's mother dips him in a river that protects his body wherever it touches. His heel does not get wet, so it is the one part of his body left unprotected. During the Trojan War, an arrow hits Achilles in the heel and kills him.
What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?
Red velvet cupcakes were Stacy's Achilles's heel when she was trying to eat more healthily. 

• A source of strength
  
• A sole weakness
  
• A feeling of false strength
• All of the above

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What is the literary definition of a simile?

• Compare two unlike things directly, without using a word of comparison
• Speaking of an inanimate object as if it had human qualities 
• Occurs when we say one thing and mean something else
• Compare two unlike things using a word of comparison such as "like"

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What does the following line of figurative language explain?
Memories like ancient photographs flashed through the girl's mind.

• The girl remembered something from long ago.
• The girl's photos were amazing.
• The girl was lost.

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"Try the grey stuff, it's delicious

Don't believe me, ask the dishes.

They can sing, they can dance"

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Imagery

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Man, I''m starving. When's dinner?

• Formal

• Informal

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Dear Madam,

• formal

• informal

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