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Don't be a stick in the mud! 

• idiom
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

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Honestly, I have no idea which candidate I’m voting for. I just don’t have very _____ political beliefs. 

• hard
• great
• big
• strong

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Which of the following is NOT an oxymoron?

• bittersweet

• civil war

• quick thinking

• pretty ugly

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urgent necessity; duty

• deferment

• impassive

• imperative

• pipe dream

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Which lines below best describe this?

• Red is feeling brave

  With all your might.

• Red is hotness

  You get inside

  When you’re embarrassed

• And when you’re angry

  Red runs through your head.

• Red is a show-off,

  No doubt about it

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”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

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Tear-stained and weary, we must have looked like the original ragged survivors of the Trojan War. What tool does this sentence employ?

• Appositive

• Opening Adjective

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What is Katharine's nickname? What does it imply about her?

• "The dark-haired girl." It implies that she is not blonde.

• "Duckspeaker." It implies that she speaks without thinking.

• "The human soundtrack." It implies that she is completely orthodox.

• "The Eleventh Edition." It implies that she is the eleventh wife.

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To walk in another man’s shoes is ____________.

• to knowing him

• knowing him

• to know him

• knowing him

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What is the meaning of the word affliction as it appears in the following excerpts?

"And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods...hoping for...the Devil's guidance in driving/Their affliction off." (lines 90-93)

"Bold and strong-minded, had driven affliction/Off, purged Herot clean." (lines 348-49)

• a desire, wish, or aspiration

• a problem or something that causes pain

• bravery, boldness, or fearlessness

• intense religious devotion

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