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Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 38mins

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Class

Date

What is a simile?

a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

a type of poem in which two things are compared

What is a metaphor?

A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"

A comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"

An adverbial phrase that compares one thing to another

A type of poem in which two things are compared

Which of the following sentences contains a simile?

She was a gazelle

She ran faster than a gazelle

A gazelle couldn't run faster than she did

She was as graceful as a gazelle

The snow was a blanket covering the ground.

simile

metaphor

personification

fuzzy

The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest. What is being personified?

The forest

The wind

A person whispering

What is personification?

A word that is a sound

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

Which one of these could be a personification?

He is as slow as a turtle

The tornado ran through town without a care

BOOM!!

I'm just too lazy to pick another answer

Brea and Elizabeth are having a dispute over which radio station to play at work. It would be so much simpler if they both liked the same kind of music.

A dispute is a __________.

musical instrument

choice of music

discovery

disagreement

We have rather lofty expectations for you, son. You will attend college. You will become rich and famous. You will be elected president of the United States before you turn forty.

Which word is a synonym of “lofty”?

high

shakey

small

lowly

10.

When Beth and Donna were fighting over a boy who didn’t like either one of them, Shana stepped in as a mediator. She sat them both in a corner and kept them talking to each other. Finally, Shana’s efforts resulted in her two friends making up.

In this sentence mediator means what?

trouble maker

peacemaker

competitor

witness

11.

Which best describes a summary?

a really long detailed piece of writing

the entire text told in your own words

a dumb thing that teachers make you write

the main ideas and important details of a text

12.

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.
The Summary of this passage is:

There are a lot of cows in Texas.

There are many different, varied parts of Texas.

Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.

There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

13.

For the walls, Jenny thought she would use a bright yellow paint. She would pick a border that had mostly bright red and green colors, and maybe a little bit of blue. She already had found some curtains that were sky blue with streaks of red, blue and yellow that she thought would go great with the walls. And finally, she had picked a carpet that was mostly blue with specks of red and yellow. Jenny couldn't wait till she was done decorating her room. It was really going to look awesome.
The Summary of this passage is:

Jenny likes bright colors.

Jenny was going to paint her room.

Jenny was picking out colors and materials to decorate her room.

Yellow is a good color to paint your walls.

14.

A group of letters that go after the root and changes the meaning of the root word is called a

affix

prefix

suffix

base word

15.

What is the main part of the word called?

root word

affix

prefix

suffix

16.

A prefix goes _________of a word.

at the end

at the beginning

in the middle

100 %

Reading Review

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 38mins

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