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Identify the simile used in the below sentence.

Her eyes twinkled like diamonds as she looked lovingly at her new kitten.

• twinkled like diamonds

• at her new kitten

• as she looked lovingly

• her eyes twinkled

Choose the sentence in which the subject and verb agree.

• Sandy and Cheryl hope he get a good grade on his English project.

• Jenny have sung that song many times before.

• The cheerleaders practice each afternoon for three hours.

• Jim and Frank was selected to play on the basketball team.

Choose the set of antonyms for the word "huge."

• small, tiny

• miniature, big

• big, strong

• tiny, weak

Elaine has no sympathy for others. You know she has a heart of stone.

Identify the metaphor in the above lines.

• no sympathy for others

• heart of stone

• she has a heart

• Elaine has no sympathy

Identify the sentence that contains a metaphor.

• She is as sweet as sugar.

• She is as blind as a bat.

• The sound of the chirping birds is music to my ears.

• Billy is as stubborn as a mule.

Mary walked quietly through the house so that she would not wake her parents. Before entering the kitchen, she stood and listened. She wanted to make sure that nobody had heard her and woken up. She slowly opened the cabinet door, trying to make sure that it didn’t squeak. As Mary reached into the cabinet, something warm and furry touched her hand. Mary ran from the kitchen screaming loudly. Her father ran in to see what had happened. He started laughing when he saw their cat Purr Purr sitting quietly in the kitchen cabinet wagging her tail. Choose the best summary of the above text.

• Mary went to the kitchen. She stopped and listened. She opened the cabinet. She screamed. Her dad laughed.

• Mary snuck quietly into the kitchen. When she opened the cabinet, something touched her hand and made her scream. Her dad came to help and discovered it was their cat in the cabinet.

• The cat hid in the cabinet and scared Mary when she reached into it.

• Mary walked into the kitchen after making sure that nobody heard her. She opened the cabinet slowly and felt something touch her. She ran away screaming. She didn’t know that it was her cat, Purr Purr.

When I got there I was dressed from head to toe in sparkly sequins and itchy tights, and I held my baton like a pro. I lined up with others in my squad and we began marching through the streets while the marching band played in front of us. I saw the crowds of people waving and smiling. At first, their happy faces made it seem less cold, but by the second mile, the happy faces did not soothe the blisters on my feet. I threw my twirling baton into the air, and this time I did not catch it. In fact, when I turned to retrieve it, I tripped on the girl behind me and caused quite a situation. I was so embarrassed that I contemplated never showing my face again.

The Parade: A Secondhand Account

I read about the Thanksgiving parade in our school newspaper today. It was held downtown last Saturday morning to honor the American holiday that occurs every year on the third Thursday in November. There was a marching band, floats from all of the local businesses, a step team, a ballet studio, and baton twirlers. The temperature outside was forty-five degrees, but the sun was shining brightly and helped warm over 600 people who came out to see the parade. All in all, the parade was a huge success, and the city plans to hold it again next year.

How is the focus of the first-hand account different from the second-hand account?

•  The first-hand account focuses on the parade itself, while the second-hand account focuses on the weather on the day of the parade.

• The first-hand account has a wide focus and represents the parade as a whole, while the second-hand account is narrow and only talks about the crowd who attended the parade.

• The first-hand account is more accurate, while the second-hand account is based on rumor.

• The first-hand account focuses on the personal experience of the speaker, while the second-hand account gives general information from the newspaper report about the parade.

His mom angrily cleaned up the messy room after she told Jimmy to do it many times.

Which of the following choices contains an adjective and an adverb from the sentence above?

• cleaned and messy

• angrily and messy

• messy and mom

• angrily and Jimmy