- 1. Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
A) "Now I am dead; now I am fled."
B) "Come tears, confound: Out sword and wound."
C) "He for a man, God warrant us, she for a woman, God bless us."
D) "With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover and prove himself an ass"
E) "For by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams"
- 2. There are many different kinds of writing. Each ______________ has different characteristics: some funny, some serious, some mysterious, some long.
A) Hyperbole
B) Genre
C) Alliteration
D) Simile
E) Metaphor
- 3. The play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a funny play, which readers would classify as a _______________________.
A) Rebuke
B) Comedy
C) Genre
D) Metaphor
E) Alliteration
- 4. "And then the moon, like a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night..."
This quote is an example of _______.
A) Comedy
B) Alliteration
C) Simile
D) Metaphor
E) Genre
- 5. "I will follow you to the ends of the earth," the boy promised the girl. She was thinking that sounded a bit extreme, like a(n) _________________.
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Hyperbole
D) Alliteration
E) Visage
- 6. "The boy was faster than lightening," a reporter claimed. And though he had broken most school records, he knew the __________ was just a figure of speech.
A) Genre
B) Simile
C) Audacious
D) Metaphor
E) Comedy
- 7. While he looked so familiar, I could not manage to __________ up his name.
A) Eloquence
B) Prodigious
C) Visage
D) Conjure
E) Rebuke
- 8. My older brother's friends seemed to make comments to __________ me every time I was around. I'm not sure why they were so intent on putting me down.
A) Audacious
B) Frenzy
C) Amiable
D) Prodigious
E) Disparage
- 9. The ____________ that came from my parents after I failed first quarter was quiet but intense. I knew I had disappointed them.
A) Prodigious
B) Rebuke
C) Eloquence
D) Visage
E) Conjure
- 10. I found him to be quite _______________ after he gave me flowers and compliments. However, I wasn't going to date him just because he was friendly.
A) Frenzy
B) Amiable
C) Rebuke
D) Audacious
E) Conjure
- 11. The __________ I saw in the mirror was not one I liked, and yet I was the only one that could fix that.
A) Visage
B) Rebuke
C) Eloquence
D) Prodigious
E) Disparage
- 12. Shelly's behavior at the dance was quite _____________, and the administration made sure that she wasn't at the next one.
A) Visage
B) Audacious
C) Eloquence
D) Amiable
E) Conjure
- 13. The senator spoke with _____________ and preciseness; everyone in the room wanted to agree with what he said.
A) Audacious
B) Amiable
C) Disparage
D) Eloquence
E) Frenzy
- 14. It was a __________ in the locker room after gym class; there was hardly room for eighty people.
A) Audacious
B) Frenzy
C) Visage
D) Conjure
E) Rebuke
- 15. The look on the teacher's face was _______________; no one could figure out what was going to happen next.
A) Frenzy
B) Conjure
C) Prodigious
D) Visage
E) Amiable
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