WorksheetsThe Landlady Context Clues and Figurative Language
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the best definition of swanky as used in the following sentence?
They had porches and pillars and four or five steps going up to their front doors, and it was obvious that once upon a time they had been very swanky residences.
homely
fancy
old
discreet
There was a vase of yellow chrysanthemums, tall and beautiful, standing just underneath the notice.
Which word would BEST replace chrysanthemums?
plants
flowers
animals
birds
Which best defines congenial as used in the sentence?
On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boarding house.
Pleasant
Strict
Cheaper
Fancy
Which best defines rapacious as used in the sentence below?
The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living room.
greedy
generous
pretty
ugly
What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?
But this dame was like a jack in the box.
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
What type of figurative language is the phrase "it rings a bell"?
Idiom
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is used here?
As though they were both famous for the same sort of thing, if you see what I mean - like...like Dempsey and Tunney or Churchill and Roosevelt.
Allusion
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?
There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this which lingers just outside the borders of one's memory.
Hyperbole
Personification
Metaphor
Idiom
Which of the following is a synonym of the word emanates?
Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person.
emit
flow into
remit
reduce
Which of the following is an antonym of the word lapsed?
He waited for her to say something else, but she seemed to have lapsed into another one of her silences.
Improved
Fallen
Declined
sunk
He seemed weird but the strangest thing about this _______ man was his clothing
peculiar
earnest
swanky
ugly
The family could no longer afford the apartment when the _____ landlord raised the rent again.
earnest
dithering
swanky
rapacious
The magician was able to ____ a rabit out of a hat.
tantalize
emanate
rapacious
conjure
That man was so angry you could almost see the anger _____ from his body.
conjure
tantalize
emanate
blemish
While Hank pretends to be _________ in public, in private he is an unpleasant man who bullies others to get his way.
Emanating
Congenial
Rapacious
Swanky
My __________ mother is convinced that we have to release every spider we come across back outside, lest it intentionally come back and lay its eggs in our house.
Dotty
Brisk
Facade
Swanky
