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3-25-22 ELA (Spelling, Vocabulary, Figurative Language)

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 6hrs 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does this idiom mean?

He is one tough cookie.

a)
He eats a lot of cookies
b)
He likes cookies
c)

He doesn't get hurt easily.

d)

He likes to cook.

2.

What does this idiom mean?

Carla put her foot in her mouth.

a)
Carla takes yoga classes.
b)
She said something embarrassing.
c)
Carla ate a snack.
d)

She likes the taste of her own socks.

3.

What does this idiom mean?

It’s raining cats and dogs.

a)

Pets are falling from the sky.

b)

 I see cats and dogs outside.

c)

It’s raining really hard.

d)

Cats and dogs are all over the roof.

4.

What does this idiom mean?

She has butterflies in her stomach.

a)

She has bad breath.

b)
She swallowed a butterfly.
c)

She just ate lunch.

d)

She is feeling very nervous.

5.

What does the idiom “zip your lips” really mean?

a)
You need to be quiet.
b)

Your lips are crusty and you need some chap stick.

c)
Your zipper is stuck. 
d)

Your fly is open.

6.

Trent was caught red-handed when

he tried to take a cookie before dinner.

He thought nobody was watching.

What does it mean if Trent was

caught "red-handed?"

a)

Trent was caught doing something wrong.

b)

His hands were painted red.

c)

Trent was embarrassed.

d)

He got away with something naughty.

7.

Mr. R has never been able to eat more than half a pizza before. Today, he thinks he can eat a whole one! His eyes are bigger than his stomach.

What is the meaning of

"his eyes are bigger than his stomach?"

a)

He has BIG eyes.

b)

He eats a lot.

c)

His stomach is small.

d)

He thinks he can eat more than he really can.

8.

Some people are good at fractions, but not me.

Fractions go over my head.

What is the meaning of "go over my head?"

a)

I see fractions in the sky.

b)

It means fractions are hard to understand.

c)

Fractions are in my head.

d)

Fractions are above me.

9.
Which is an example of a simile?
a)

Evan's room was a hurricane of a mess.

b)

Evan's room looked like a hurricane came through.

c)
A hurricane! AHHH!
d)
The hurricane screamed through the town. 
10.

What is the definition of hyperbole?

a)
When a group of of words all start with the same sound.
b)
When words sound like what they mean.
c)

An exaggeration 

d)

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

11.

Which of the following is an example of personification?

a)
You are as a beautiful as a flower.
b)
The trees danced in the wind.
c)

I waited in line for a million years!

d)
He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 
12.

Which Figurative Language tool is being used here?

My brother was boiling mad.

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

13.

Which Figurative Language tool is being used here?

A good cook can cook many good cookies.

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Alliteration

d)

Idiom

14.

Which Figurative Language tool is being used here?

This classroom turns into a zoo after lunch!

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

15.

Which Figurative Language tool is being used here?

My phone is not cooperating with me today.

a)

Simile

b)

Alliteration

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Personification

16.

Which word is spelled correctly?

a)

agraculture

b)

mannipulate

c)

missles

d)

intermission

17.

Which word is spelled correctly?

a)

agribusines

b)

manuever

c)

manual

d)

entroduced

18.

Which word is spelled correctly?

a)

entermision

b)

manipulat

c)

praduced

d)

manufactured

19.

Which word means "to become fewer, smaller, or less"?

a)

dignity

b)

activist

c)

firsthand

d)

decline

20.

Which word means "a person who tries to bring about social change"?

a)

activist

b)

economic

c)

miner

d)

cultivate

21.

Which word means "to be worthy of honor and respect"?

a)

intermission

b)

decline

c)

dignity

d)

economic

22.

Which word means "to prepare and use land for growing crops"?

a)

newfangled

b)

cultivate

c)

miner

d)

activist

23.

Which word means "as good (or better) than any other"?

a)

produced

b)

manipulate

c)

firsthand

d)

unsurpassed

24.

Which word means "coming from the original source or experience"?

a)

firsthand

b)

decline

c)

intermission

d)

miner

25.

Which word means "something new and different than any other before it"?

a)

cultivate

b)

dignity

c)

manufactured

d)

newfangled