TEKS.ELA.3.10D

What is a comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• personification
• verse
• metaphor
• simile

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How does Ivan feel about humans wasting their words?

• They melt like ice cream in the summer.
• They throw their words in the trash can.
• They toss them like banana peels and let them rot.
• They are like candies in the wind.

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What is the tone of the following passage?
The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

• Eerie
• Sarcastic
• Passionate
• Humorous

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What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

• Sight
• Sound
• Touch 
• Taste

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Life is a winding road is an example of 

• simile
• personificaiton
• metaphor 

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Which of the following sets of words deal mostly with the sense of TOUCH?

• rough, sharp, slippery
• buzzing, gasping, barking
• tangled, furry, bright
• thunderous, whispery, muted

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Which of the following is a simile?

• I looked up as I heard a bird above my head.

• The mom was as excited as a kid on Christmas morning.

• Jenny likes to go swimming in the river.

• Kendal was a fish in the water.

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All of the following are metaphors except for

• The thunder was a mighty lion.

• The storm was a raging bull.

• His eyes were ice as he stared at his sister.

• I am nine years old in the fourth grade.

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Literal or Figurative??

The water was rising in the river because of the rain.

• literal language

• figurative language

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Literal or Figurative??

Half of the class did not complete the assignment.

• literal language

• figurative language

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