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Choose the word with the positive connotation.
gathering--mob

• gathering
• mob

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When Daisy states that Tom Buchanan is a "...brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a------" (12), she is 

• being sarcastic
• being lighthearted 
• completely irate
• mournful  

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The metaphor Shakespeare uses to represent jealousy.

• Green with envy. 
• Seeing red. 
• Jealousy is hateful.
• "green-eyed monster"

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What is an idiom?

• The use of symbols in writing to express something to the reader.
• An exaggeration.
• Two words that sound the same, but are spelled differently. 
• A group of words that mean something other than the literal meaning. 

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A figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to animals, plants, objects and ideas. 
Example: The moon followed me through the night. 

• Poetry 
• Simile 
• Personification 

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“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

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Washington Irving depicts Rip as a husband who is constantly being nagged by his wife. The term for this is

• nagged to death

• hen-pecked

• obedient

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Name the character: Salem judge; knows the townspeople; described as "bitter and remorseless"

• Judge Hathorne

• Judge Danforth

• Reverend Hale

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How do we define figurative language?

• Words or phrases that affect a meaning other than the usual or literal meaning of those words/phrases.

• words or phrases that create images

• the sequence of events that contribute to a plot

• the parts of a poem that create feeling

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What is the meaning of the word loathsome as it appears in the following excerpt?

"...and running to his loathsome moor [land]/With another such sickening meal waiting/In his pouch." (lines 538-40)

• disgusting or repulsive

• appealing or attractive

• swift or quick

• delaying or putting off

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