Worksheets8th Grade ELA Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a simile?
a)
comparison of 2 things using like or as.
b)
comparison of 2 things without using like or as.
c)
exaggeration
d)
a saying
2.
What is figurative language?
a)
Literal language
b)
not literal, you have to figure out what it means.
c)
words function exactly as defined.
3.
What are the Literary Devices?
a)
Verbals
b)
Verb Moods
c)
Literary Language
d)
Figurative Language
4.
What is alliteration?
a)
Repetition of initial consonant sound.
b)
repetition of vowel sounds
c)
giving human traits to nonhuman things
d)
short, wise saying
5.
What is a metaphor?
a)
expression
b)
exaggeration
c)
a saying
d)
two things are being compared without using like or as.
6.
What is personification?
a)
two things being compared.
b)
exaggeration
c)
a saying
d)
giving human qualities to objects or ideas which are not human.
7.
What is a Hyperbole?
a)
a word that makes a sound
b)
repetition of vowel sounds
c)
extreme exaggeration
d)
short wise saying
8.
What is an idiom?
a)
a saying that isn't meant to be taken literal
b)
a joke
c)
giving human characteristics to non human things
d)
a comparison of 2 things
9.
What is an idiom?
a)
a saying that isn't meant to be taken literal
b)
a joke
c)
giving human characteristics to non human things
d)
a comparison of 2 things
10.
What is understatement?
a)
expression with less than expected.
b)
reference inside one work to another
c)
repetition of vowel sounds
d)
direct comparison between two different things
11.
What is onomatopoeia?
a)
spelling of the word that makes the sound it represents
b)
repetition of initial consonant sounds
c)
play on words, often creates a double meaning
d)
short wise saying
12.
What is a pun?
a)
exaggeration
b)
comparison of 2 things
c)
a form of word play in which words have double meanings
d)
repetition of vowel sounds
13.
What is oxymoron?
a)
short wise saying
b)
when two words are put together that contract each other.
c)
play on words
d)
a phrase of less strength than the action.
14.
What is allusion?
a)
giving human traits to nonhuman things
b)
repetition of vowel sounds
c)
reference inside one work to another
d)
extreme exaggeration
15.
What is a proverb?
a)
a short wise saying
b)
play on words
c)
saying not meant to be taken literally
d)
giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
16.
What is assonance?
a)
repetition of vowel sounds
b)
repetition of initial consonant sounds
c)
exaggeration
d)
spelling of the word makes the sound it represents.
17.
This should only take a second.
a)
hyperbole
b)
idiom
c)
pun
d)
understatement
18.
"Idle hands are the devil's playground."
a)
personification
b)
simile
c)
proverb
d)
assonance
19.
As the new girl walked into the room, she thought, "I'm not in Kansas anymore!"
a)
alliteration
b)
allusion
c)
metaphor
d)
idiom
20.
The ending of middle school is bittersweet.
a)
metaphor
b)
oxymoron
c)
simile
d)
pun
21.
I'm glad I know sign language, it's pretty handy.
a)
pun
b)
metaphor
c)
oxymoron
d)
simile
22.
The new car was going to cost me an arm and a leg.
a)
hyperbole
b)
idiom
c)
pun
d)
understatement
23.
The new chapter in his life was going to be filled with changes.
a)
alliteration
b)
allusion
c)
metaphor
d)
idiom
24.
A verbal is a word formed from a verb and functions as a?
a)
noun, adjective, or adverb
b)
verb
c)
noun or adjective
d)
noun, verb, or adjective
25.
What are the three types of verbals?
a)
noun, adjective, and adverb
b)
participle, gerund,infinitive
c)
indicative, imperative, and interrogative
d)
conditional, participle, infinitive
26.
A participle is a verb form that is used as a?
a)
noun
b)
verb
c)
adverb
d)
adjective
27.
A gerund is a verb form ending in ing and is used as a?
a)
noun
b)
verb
c)
adjective
d)
adverb
28.
An infinitive is to + verb and is used as a?
a)
noun, adjective,verb
b)
noun, adjective, and preposition
c)
noun, adjective
d)
noun, adjective, adverb
29.
What is dialogue?
a)
stuff in quotations
b)
used to show new paragrahs
c)
what is spoken in a text
d)
the beginning of a text
30.
What is indicative mood?
a)
fact
b)
command
c)
question
d)
condition
31.
What is imperative mood?
a)
fact
b)
question
c)
condition
d)
command
32.
What is interrogative mood?
a)
fact
b)
command
c)
question
d)
condition
33.
What is conditional mood?
a)
fact
b)
command
c)
question
d)
condition
34.
What is subjunctive mood?
a)
fact
b)
command
c)
question
d)
wish
35.
What apple is red.
a)
Indicative
b)
Imperative
c)
Interrogrative
d)
Conditional
36.
Stop in the name of the law!
a)
Imperative
b)
Interrogative
c)
Conditional
d)
Subjunctive
37.
What were you doing at 8 pm on the night in question?
a)
Indicative
b)
Imperative
c)
Interrogrative
d)
Conditional
38.
I will agree to the deal on one condition: you shake my hand.
a)
indicative
b)
imperative
c)
interrogative
d)
conditional
39.
I wish I had more money.
a)
indicative
b)
imperative
c)
interrogative
d)
subjunctve
40.
What is rhyme?
a)
repetition of sound
b)
figurative language
41.
What is Rhythm?
a)
repetition of a particular pattern of feet
b)
regular pattern of meter
c)
the number of patterns
42.
What is meter?
a)
the voice of the poem
b)
stanzas
c)
repetition of a particular pattern of feet
43.
What is the most common meter in poetry?
a)
pentameter
b)
tetrameter
c)
pentameter
d)
iambic
44.
What are all the forms of be?
a)
is, am, were
b)
is, am, were, be, being
c)
is, am, were, be, being, been
d)
is, am
45.
Use the passive voice to fill in blank.
The toy was ________.
The toy was ________.
a)
broken
b)
lost
c)
stolen
46.
What are 3 ways to say Joe + eat + cookie in the passive voice?
a)
The cookie was eaten by Joe.
b)
The cookie will be eaten by Joe.
c)
The cookie is being eaten by Joe.
d)
All of the above
47.
Do your homework now!
a)
Indicative
b)
Imperative
c)
Interrogative
d)
Conditional
48.
I wish I were hungry.
a)
Conditional
b)
Interrogative
c)
Subjunctive
d)
Indicative
49.
John would eat if he were hungry.
a)
Subjunctive
b)
Indicative
c)
Imperative
d)
Conditional
50.
What would an owner say to his pet in the imperative?
a)
jump
b)
sit
c)
walk
d)
all of the above
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