Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the
statement or answers the question.
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Which of these phrases is a metaphor?
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a. | clockwork men | b. | tall as the truth | c. | light winced on
their knives | d. | dead fish are
polished marble |
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Which of these lines does not include a simile?
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a. | he looked like he had fallen | b. | like a gazelle, she ran away | c. | the ship went down like lead | d. | Bo ran like a frenzied windmill |
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Which compares things without using the words like
or as? _____
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Which compares things by using the words like or
as? _____
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Choose an answer that completes the following analogies:
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mink: soft :: mold: _____
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_____:man :: wheel: bike
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What does this idiom
mean?
to exhaust
yourself by doing too much _____
a. | to kill two birds with one
stone | b. | to fall between two stools | c. | to burn the candle at both ends | d. | to let the cat out of the bag |
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