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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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What type of figurative language is used below:
The thunder BOOMED, and the lightning CRACKLED.

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• idiom
• metaphor

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Which of these is a hyperbole?

• The boy was taller then me.
• He had a bite-sized candy bar.
• They lived in a small house.
• The boy was taller than Earth.

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"The pencil danced across the page,
like a ballerina who'd never age."
This couplet features which 2 types of figurative language:

• Personification & Simile
• Rhyme & Repetition
• Personification & Metaphor
• Alliteration & Onomatopoeia

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What is personification

• Giving human qualities to a human
• Giving non living qualities to living things
• Comparing something to a nonliving thing.
• Giving human qualities to a non human things

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The poet uses figurative language in the poem to show the speaker's

• determined to make a choice.
• anxious to make a choice.
• satisfied with his choice.
• eager to make a choice.

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Choose the answer that is not a hyperbole.

• My house is as big as North America.
• My brother is smaller than a seed.
• I ate a truck-full of food.
• I'm taller then you.

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Yes, Utzel hated everybody and everything, but he adored his daughter. He daydreamed that a rich young man would fall in love with her, marry her, and provide for his wife and his father-inlaw. But not a young man in the village showed the slightest interest in poverty.

In the passage, what does the compound word daydream mean?

• terrible thoughts

• sleeping pictures

• pleasant thoughts

• daily pictures

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A simile compares two unlike things using like or as.

• True

• False

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In a biblical parable, a Samaritan selflessly stops to help an enemy who has been beaten and stranded on the side of a road.

What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?

A Good Samaritan jumped in when my grocery bag broke and the contents spilled all over the sidewalk.

• a person who enjoys interacting with others

• a person who plays tricks on others

• a person who takes advantage of others

• a person who goes out of the way to help another

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