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Touching Spirit Bear Figurative Language

Quiz by Pauline Sung

Grade 8
English Language Arts
Common Core

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  • Q1
    "If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness." The above statement is an example of
    Paradox
    Metaphor
    Assonance
    Hyperbole
    300s
  • Q2
    "Language is a road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." The above statement is an example of
    hyperbole
    onomotopoeia
    Metaphor
    simile
    300s
  • Q3
    “[. . .] Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed [. . .]” The above statement is an example of
    irony
    Personification
    alliteration
    simile
    300s
  • Q4
    She killed him with kindness. The above statement is an example of
    Paradox
    metaphor
    personification
    oxymoron
    300s
  • Q5
    All hands on deck! The above statement is an example of
    metaphor
    metaphor
    Synecdoche
    anaphora
    300s
  • Q6
    ”I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South - barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! - stuck away in some little mousetrap of a room - encouraged by one in-law to visit another - little birdlike women without any nest - eating the crust of humility all their life!” The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams In the above passage, “some little mousetrap of a room” is an example of
    metaphor
    personification
    simile
    allusion
    300s
  • Q7
    “Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.” Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck The above passage is an example of
    irony
    anaphora
    personification
    synecodoche
    300s
  • Q8
    “Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech – and nothing Happened.” Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad The above passage is an example of
    onomatopoeia
    anaphora
    assonance
    synecdoche
    300s
  • Q9
    “At the close of the afternoon service we returned by an exposed and hilly road, where the bitter winter wind, blowing over a range of snowy summits to the north, almost flayed the skin from our faces.” Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë The above passage is an example of
    onomatopoeia
    assonance
    personification
    irony
    300s
  • Q10
    “A street of farmers’ homesteads – a street ruled by a mayor and corporation, yet echoing with the thump of the flail, the flutter of the winnowing-fan, and the purr of the milk into the pails – a street which had nothing urban in it whatever – this was the Durnover end of Casterbridge.” The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy The above passage is an example of
    simile
    anaphora
    assonance
    personification
    300s
  • Q11
    A feigned illness is
    faked
    life-threatening
    chronic
    300s
  • Q12
    The situation that is the best example of an omen is _______________.
    hearing your favorite song on the radio
    having a policeman knock on your door unexpectedly
    planning a fun day with friends
    300s
  • Q13
    To say that a house was shrouded by a gnarled growth of hedges and trees means that it was _______________.
    surrounded by professionally landscaped gardens
    hidden from view by uncontrolled plant growth
    visibly accented beyond a line of dense vegetation
    300s
  • Q14
    To say that Cole was able to conjure up an excuse means that he came up with an explanation _______________.
    that was totally believable
    as if by magic
    in no time at all
    300s
  • Q15
    A venomous remark is _______________.
    spiteful
    a joke shared between friends
    funny
    300s

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