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What is the following statement an example of?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?

• Simile
• Metaphor

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The sun stretched its golden arms across the land.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

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What kind of figurative language is being used?
The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands. 

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

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Simile or Metaphor:
The city is a sea of sadness.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

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Fall Fridays feel fantastic. 

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

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In a well-known folktale, Chicken Little is accidentally hit by something and jumps to the conclusion that the sky is falling and that she must spread the news of imminent disaster.
What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?
The weather forecast called for clear skies, making my grandfather look like Chicken Little. 

• A person who greets trouble with a cheery disposition 
• A person who spreads alarming news of imminent disaster 
• A person who does not believe he or she can get in trouble
• All of the above

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

• true
• false

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"Andy always eats apples and asparagus" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Assonance
• Consonance
• Figurative Language
• Metaphor

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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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I’ve told my student a billion times that they should always write their mailbox number and last name on their papers!

• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Oxymoron

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