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What kind of figurative language is being used?
The bus hit a tree and went boom as it exploded.

• onomatopoeia 
• imagery
• simile
• metaphor

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This sentence is an example of what:  "My clown self arrives when I feel silly."

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

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In Greek mythology, ambrosia is the name for the food of the gods.
What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?
Louanne's Ice Cream Parlor has the best dessert short of ambrosia! 

• A heavenly delicacy 
• Something unusual or exciting 
• Something hideous or grotesque
• All of the above

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"Once upon a midnight dreary, 
While I pondered, weak and weary"
This contains an example of ___________. 

• Tone
• Structure
• Personification
• Rhyme

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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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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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When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains. What is being personified?

• The patriots

• The Redcoat Army

• Freedom

• The fruited plains

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England lost by three wickets in the last match.

• metonymy

• synecdoche

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Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

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A figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits or abilities

• Stanza

• Rhyme

• Personifcation

• Point of View

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