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Choose the word with the positive connotation.
gossip--chat

• gossip
• chat

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What type of figurative language is shown?
She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.

• hyperbole
• oxymoron
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

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What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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In Greek mythology, a mythical bird called the phoenix lives for hundreds of years before bursting into flames at its death. However, it soon rises from its own ashes and is reborn.
What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?

Fans debated whether their team would rise from the ashes.

• To come back after destruction or defeat
• To surprise an opponent

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The tone of a passage is:

• the general feeling created by the writer.

• the length of the selection.

• the type of selection.

• the lesson given in the selection.

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Which word means: 'To compare two things without using the words like or as?'

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification 
• Idiom

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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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Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic. What is being personified?

• The clock

• Time

• The room

• Tim

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Personification:

• a purposeful exaggeration for emphasis or humor.

• comparison of two things essentially different but with some commonalities; does not use “like” or “as,” e.g. “Her smile was ice.”

• human qualities attributed to an animal, object, or idea, e.g. “The wind exhaled.”

• comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as,” e.g. “Her smile was as cold as ice.”

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The feeling that a literary work conveys to readers is called

• mood
• tone
• symbol
• point of view

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