ELA Post Assessment

Which type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?

The photographers circled her like vultures above a tottering lion cub.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

What does the word deteriorated mean in the following sentence?

The exterior of the beach house hasn’t improved. In fact, it has deteriorated because of the salt air from the ocean.

• improved

• shifted

• worsened

• hardened

Which sentence contains figurative language?

• Jenny danced in the recital and won an award for her grace and elegance.

• Kevin decided to reorganize his office, but it’s going to take him the rest of the day.

• I heard the gossip straight from the horse’s mouth.

• Rose’s latest painting uses different shades of blues and greens.

• Alexandra stayed awake all night studying for her test.

The wind whispered through the valley is an example of what type of figurative language element?

How many stanzas appear in Emily Dickinson’s “My Friend Must Be a Bird”?

My friend must be a bird,

Because it flies!

Mortal my friend must be,

Because it dies!

Barbs has it, like a bee.

Ah, curious friend,

Thou puzzlest me!

• one

• two

• seven

• five

In the stanza below, which poetic device is used?

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride

In her sepulchre there by the sea—

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

• repetition

• allusion

• repeated rhyme scheme

• Onomatopoeia

What are contextual symbols?

• symbols that appeal to the readers’ physical senses

• symbols that many people and cultures are familiar with

• symbols that are specific to a particular piece of text

• symbols that appear only in poetry writing

Which three elements belong to the SIFT method?

• symbols

• figurative language

• structure

• technique

• imagery

When reviewing a piece of writing, Which two changes might be suggested by a peer reviewer?

• spelling

• topic

• theme

• punctuation

• tone

Read this excerpt from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Which two lines in the excerpt have an internal rhyme?

'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,

Merrily did we drop

Below the kirk, below the hill,

Below the lighthouse top.

The Sun came up upon the left,

Out of the sea came he!

And he shone bright, and on the right

Went down into the sea.

• 'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,

• Below the kirk, below the hill,

• And he shone bright, and on the right

• Went down into the sea.