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MM - Thursday 2105

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Your dog ate your homework.

You have no time to do it again.

You now have detention for a fortnight.


You might feel ____________________

a)

happy

b)

despondent

c)

excited

d)

underappreciated

2.

These are tuna eyeballs.


As a food, they would be ___________

a)

delicious

b)

repulsive

c)

pleasant

d)

acceptable

3.

not planning in advance

a)

spontaneous

b)

spontaneus

c)

spontaneos

d)

spontanious

4.

not planning in advance

a)

spontaneous

b)

spontaneus

c)

spontaneos

d)

spontanious

5.

abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food

a)

deluged

b)

emaciated

c)

arbitrarily

d)

deluged

6.

I am...

a)

dishevalled

b)

dishevelled

c)

unhevelled

7.

To be painfully perfect is to be ________________-

a)

fastidious

b)

emancipated

c)

independent

d)

organised

8.

_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

a)

anaphora

b)

epistrophe

c)

rhetorical question

d)

parallelism

9.

Which word is an example of high modality?

a)

might

b)

will

10.

Which word is an example of low modality?

a)

may

b)

must

11.
Which of the following is a hyperbole?
a)
She is as pretty as a flower.
b)
She is the prettiest woman in the entire universe.
c)
She is a beautiful flower.
d)
She is very pretty.
12.
I'm so hungry I could eat a cow.
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Not hyperbole
13.

Check all responses that ARE similes.

a)

Watching this movie is like watching grass grow.

b)

Those kids are fighting like cats and dogs.

c)

I like to eat steak and potatoes.

d)

He should have thrown it away as he walked by the trash can.

e)

He is as fast as a cheetah.

14.
(7 + 41) ÷ 2 – 15
a)
19
b)
9
c)
25
d)
3
15.

Which operation would you do first?

( 12 + 10) ÷ 10 x 14 - 6

a)

Division

b)

Multiplication

c)

Addition

d)

Subtraction