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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_____:man :: wheel: bike
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Which word parts are joined to their roots by
separate connecting vowels? _____
a. | prefixes | b. | roots | c. | suffixes | d. | all of the
above |
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The suffix “-logy” means:
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a. | make | b. | life | c. | form | d. | study |
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The prefix “con-“ means:
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a. | with | b. | away | c. | through | d. | outside |
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One should analyze affixes, root words,
contractions, possessives and common abbreviations to help determine word meanings.
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Dyspnea is: _____
a. | a sport that involves hurling a dysp for
distance | b. | a vein through which tree sap
rises | c. | difficulty in
breathing |
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