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I am as hungry as a bear! 

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

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What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain
• Rhyme
• Meter
• Simile

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Your love is like radiant diamonds.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration

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Don't mind Mikey.  He's a grizzly bear until he's had his breakfast.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• simile

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What type of figurative language is shown?
That freshly baked apple pie looks awfully good.

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile
• oxymoron

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Uncle Henrik glanced over at her and smiled without pausing in the rhythm of the milking... His strong hands continued, deftly pressing like a pulse against the cow.  The steady stream of milk still came
Using context clues, what is the best meaning for the word deftly as it used in the passage. 

• intelligently
• firmly
• sternly
• skillfully

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Outside the wind is roaring like a lion. But, inside here, it sounds like a purring kitten.
Did the author use similes or metaphors in the text?

• Similes
• Metaphors

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Outside the wind is roaring like a lion. But, inside here, it sounds like a purring kitten.
Why did the author use these comparisons?

• To explain how loud or quiet the wind was
• To talk about lions
• To compare lions to kittens
• To confuse the reader

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True or False: A metaphor is a comparison that says something is something else.

• True

• False

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"Look here," said Peter, turning on him savagely. What does savagely mean?

• happily

• angrily

• sleepily

• sadly

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