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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
the heartbeat of Cuba
Clack! Bang!
His legs were like lead
he was invisible
- 2. Multiple Choice
"The kitten's tummy purred like an outboard motor" is an example of a...
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
idiom
- 3. Multiple Choice
He "stopped dead in his tracks" is an example of...
idiom
simile
personification
hyperbole
- 4. Multiple Choice
"Waleed sat like a zombie in front of the television" is an example of...
personification
idiom
metaphor
simile
- 5. Multiple Choice
"Isabel felt as if her heart had been ripped out of her chest" is an example of ...
hyperbole
simile
personification
onomatopoeia
- 6. Multiple Choice
The following are all similes EXCEPT...
He was covered with a fine gray powder from head to foot, like he's taken a bath in dry concrete mix.
...the whole building came crashing down into the street, thundering like a jet fighter.
The air was full of dust, and it scratched and tore at his throat as it went down.
An irregular rhythm that lay over the top of the regular beat, like a heartbeat beneath the skin.
- 7. Multiple Choice
"But the hatred had followed them even here, to the middle of the ocean" is an example of...
personification
idiom
alliteration
onomatopeia
- 8. Multiple Choice
"The old taxi's exhaust pipe made a sound like a gunshot- POK!" This is both...
personification and idiom
onomatopeia and hyperbole
idiom and metaphor
simile and onomatopeia
- 9. Multiple Choice
Aleppo...a crown jewel of the Middle East
metaphor
simile
personification
onomatopoeia
- 10. Multiple Choice
"Had to go back for the phone," he told them "How else am I going to play Angry Birds?" [this was after narrowly escaping death]
simile
sarcasm
metaphor
personification
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