Idioms
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You are as quiet as a mouse.
a. You are very loud.
b. You look like a mouse.
c. You are very quiet.
d. You smell like a mouse.
You are very quiet.
The duck quacked to get food.
A. duck
B. Quack
C. Food
D. I don't like ducks
B. Quack
I'm so hungry, I could eat a ____________!
a. mouse
b. carrot stick
c. whale
d. I don't eat.
WHALE!!! I'm starving!!
What does this personification mean? My cell phone grew legs and walked away.
A. My cell phone is a pet and I take it for walks.
B. My cell phone is missing and gone.
C. My cell phone is broken.
B. My cell phone is missing and gone.
I'm not going to work today, I feel under the weather.
I feel sick or unwell.
This girl is on fire!
A. She is doing very well
B. Call 911, she is on fire.
C. She is bored and falling asleep.
She is doing very well.
I listened to the popping, so I know when the popcorn was done.
A. popcorn
B. listen
C. popping
D. Popcorn is delicious!
Popping
What does this mean?
I waited so long, my hair turned gray and I got wrinkles.
A. I wanted a new hairstyle.
B. I waited a really long time.
B. I waited a really long time.
BANG!!!! I heard a car door slam outside!
A. Idiom
B. Simile
C. Hyperbole
D. Onamontopie
Onamontopie
I will be a millionaire when pigs fly!
Impossible ... It will never happen.
Her tears ran like a river.
A. She was happy.
B. She was upset and crying.
C. She ran next to a river
She was upset and crying.
An onamontopie describes words that make ________.
A. smells
B. sounds
C. taste
D. me confused
B. sounds
I told you a million times to put your phone away.
A. I said it one time.
B. I repeated myself over and over and over.... and over.
C. You have a million phones.
B. I repeated myself over and over and over.... and over.
BOOOOMMMM!!!! The thunder rolled across the sky during the storm.
A. The thunder was very soft and quiet.
B. I love thunderstorms.
C. It is flooding.
D. The thunder was very loud.
D. The thunder was very loud.
I am headed home, I'm calling it a day!
Finished or done with something
My food is so spicy, it's like my mouth is on fire!
A. simile
B. metaphor
Metaphor
The old truck groaned and gasped driving up the steep mountain.
groaned and gasped
Her smile was brighter than the sun.
A. She lived on the sun.
B. Her smile was big and beautiful.
C. Her teeth were orange and yellow like the sun.
B. Her smile was big and beautiful.
WOW! That car is brand new and fancy, it must have cost __________________________!!
A. Break a leg
B. Hit the road
C. an arm and a leg
D. piece of a cake.
C. an arm and a leg
Hey, spill the beans! I want to know what happened!!
Tell a secret or details
I am as lazy as a walrus, laying in the sun!
A. Simile - a bored, slow animal doing nothing
B. Metaphor - you are a walrus swimming
A. Simile - a bored, slow animal doing nothing
Ms. Simmons coughed. sneezed, and sniffled after smelling the beautiful flowers.
A. beautiful flowers
B. Simmons
C. smelling
D. coughed, sneezed, and sniffled
D. coughed, sneezed, and sniffled
Which one is the hyperbole?
A. Let's hit the hay, I am tired.
B. I'm so tired, I could sleep for a million years.
C. I am as tired as a sleepy teenager in first block.
D. I will go to bed early tonight.
B. I'm so tired, I could sleep for a million years.
Find the Simile:
LEAVES (poem)
In the apple orchard, In the oldest tree
Fall has hidden golden leaves. I looked in the hollow and saw no apples,
Only leaves with frost on them, like marble tiling, like jeweled tables.
leaves with frost on them, like marble tiling, like jeweled tables.