Simile
Which is the definition of a simile:
A. Comparing two things using “like” or “as.”
B. Comparing two things without using “like” or “as.”
C. Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object
A. Comparing two things using “like” or “as.”
Imagery appeals to the ______________.
A. brain
B. senses
C. crazy people
D. Memory
B. senses
The best definition for theme is...
A. The lesson the author is teaching.
B. The message the author is sending.
C. A word that summarizes the story.
D. The character's main problem.
B. The message the author is sending.
What is the definition of “tone” in literature?
A. How the reader feels about the topic
B. How the author feels about the topic
C. The moral of the story
D. The main idea of the story
B. How the author feels about the topic
Which of the following is the definition of a metaphor?
A. Comparing two unlike things using the word “like” or “as.”
B. Comparing two unlike things without using the word “like” or “as.”
C. Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object.
D. An exaggeration
B. Comparing two unlike things without using the word “like” or “as.”
How many examples of similes are in this passage?
Getting all of the kids into the car was like herding cattle. All 6 of the family members were packed into the car like sardines. Jennie felt like the car was as cramped as a coffin! The car was a speeding bullet, flying down the road to get to the wedding on time.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
B. 3
Which of the following is the most effective piece of description?
A. A really nice vase of flowers was on the window ledge
B. A wonderful display of flowers was on the window ledge
C. The vibrant colours of the vase of flowers on the window ledge seemed to bring the whole room to life
C. The vibrant colours of the vase of flowers on the window ledge seemed to bring the whole room to life
A tornado swept through this town three years ago. It gutted hundreds of houses and businesses. At the hardware store one day after the storm, I met Leo Jackson, a retired carpenter, who was buying wood to rebuild his house "sooner than the state will do it." He told me: "I don't like change, so I'm going to make sure the next one can't do more than knock at my door." After this past storm swept through his town, I drove by his new house to check on him. He was sitting on his porch waiting for the interview, and not one window was broken.
Why would the author quote Leo Jackson in this article?
The author quotes Leo Jackson in order to --
A) inform the readers about his plans for rebuilding his home.
B) explain how the storm affected the community.
C) compare his new attitude to his old one.
D) praise his commitment
E) illustrate one resident's determination
E) illustrate one resident's determination
She hesitated, listening for sounds of the creature. The forest seemed empty, but she could sense something else out there. Something watching and waiting.
What is the mood of the passage?
A. romantic
B. depressing
C. joyful
D. suspenseful
D. suspenseful
In the following sentence, what is being used as a metaphor for reading?
“My own hunger set in long before I could read, back when ink marks on the page were still a mystery, and yet even now, after devouring so many thousands of books, I am as ready and hungry for books as ever.”
A. Dancing
B. Ink marks on a page
C. Time
D. Food
D. Food
What is figurative language?
A. Language that means more than what the words say.
B. Language that means just what the words say.
A. Language that means more than what the words say.
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow – a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards.
What does the IMAGERY used in the paragraph above tell the reader about the captain?
A. He is in need of first aid.
B. He is likely carrying treasure in his sea-chest.
C. He has grown frail and tired with old age.
D. He has had a rough and adventurous life.
D. He has had a rough and adventurous life.
Libraries have become, of course, much more than houses for books. They've become knots in the global web of information. However, in this age of new devices for storing and spreading knowledge-from videotapes to CD-ROMS, from cable television to the Internet-I'm still devoted to the humble book. A book requires no electricity. It is portable, made for the hand and pocket. It invites but does not demand our attention, and it leaves us time to think. We can enter or leave a book just as we choose, and we can interrupt our reading to burp a baby or pay a bill or ponder a cloud. A good book calls to what is best in us, without trying to sell us anything. Books may become dated, of course, yet never because of some shift in technology or because their parts wear out, and the best of them are more durable than any manufactured product.
In the paragraph above, what is the author’s message about books?
A. No other form of entertainment that is better than a book.
B. Books are not as useful as other forms of entertainment.
C. Books are easy to read.
D. Technology has made books less important.
A. No other form of entertainment that is better than a book.
A vaccine is a preparation of killed or weakened germs that is injected under
the skin and causes the blood to produce antibodies against the disease.
Effective vaccines, for instance, have been developed for small pox, rabies,
and polio.
What is the tone of the passage?
a. objective
b. arrogant
c. regretful
a. objective
I'm not foolish enough to believe that books will survive merely because I love them, or because I write them, or because they've shaped my life. By comparison with films or videos or computer bulletin boards, a good book requires more from us in the way of intelligence and imagination and memory, and that makes it vulnerable to its glitzy competitors; but a book also rewards us more abundantly. The best books invite us to share in a sustained, complex, subtle effort to make sense of things, to understand some portion of our humanity and our universe. As long as there are people hungry for such understanding, there will be people hungry for books. My own hunger set in long before I could read, back when ink marks on the page were still a mystery, and yet even now, after devouring so many thousands of books, I am as ready and hungry for books as ever.
This paragraph suggests that books --
A. Will eventually be replaced by other media
B. Offer something deeper than other forms of entertainment
C. Provide people with knowledge not available elsewhere
B. Offer something deeper than other forms of entertainment
All these years later, after making more than twenty books of my own, I still feel the miraculous power in language, whether written or spoken, the same power I felt when I sang a train into motion and I learned the name of Snake, and Sandra taught me the alphabet on the screened porch of our farmhouse in Memphis. How extraordinary, that a few sounds or a few squiggles can stir up people and voices and landscapes in our minds! Like sunshine, like the urgency of spring, like bread, language is so familiar that we easily forget what an amazing gift it is.
The similes at the end of this paragraph shows which of the following is true?
A. That common things can be taken for granted
B. The impact of childhood memories on learning
C. How children’s books affected the author
A. That common things can be taken for granted
The word is terracide. It is not committed with guns and knives, but with relentless bulldozers, roaring dump trucks, and giant shovels like mythological beasts. Dynamite cuts and rips apart mountains to reach the minerals inside, leaving nothing but empty, naked hills. The land is left wasted and allowed to slide down upon houses and into streams, making the land unlivable and the stream water undrinkable. This is terracide, or if you prefer, strip mining.
The author’s purpose in the above paragraph is to
a. inform you about the purposes of strip mining.
b. describe a strip mining operation.
c. persuade you that strip mining is bad for the environment.
d. define terracide.
c. persuade you that strip mining is bad for the environment.
Libraries have become, of course, much more than houses for books. They've become knots in the global web of information. However, in this age of new devices for storing and spreading knowledge-from videotapes to CD-ROMS, from cable television to the Internet-I'm still devoted to the humble book. A book requires no electricity. It is portable, made for the hand and pocket. It invites but does not demand our attention, and it leaves us time to think. We can enter or leave a book just as we choose, and we can interrupt our reading to burp a baby or pay a bill or ponder a cloud. A good book calls to what is best in us, without trying to sell us anything. Books may become dated, of course, yet never because of some shift in technology or because their parts wear out, and the best of them are more durable than any manufactured product.
This paragraph does which of the following contribute to the author's message about books?
A. It presents his argument for replacing libraries with modern technology.
B. It offers a solution to the problem of books becoming outdated.
C. It details the advantages of books to support his belief about their value.
C. It details the advantages of books to support his belief about their value.
A library is a storehouse, preserving what humans have learned, generation by generation, in every land, but it is a storehouse with doors and windows and hallways opening outward to the vast, sprawling, worldwide treasure trove of human knowledge. Surely this is what most clearly distinguishes us as a species, the ability to accumulate knowledge and to pass it on. We pass it on by word of mouth, we pass it on by example, we pass it on in films and tapes and disks, in magazines and newspapers, but above all we pass it on in books.
What is the author’s tone in this passage?
A. Determined
B. Passionate
C. Humorous
B. Passionate
I'm not foolish enough to believe that books will survive merely because I love them, or because I write them, or because they've shaped my life. By comparison with films or videos or computer bulletin boards, a good book requires more from us in the way of intelligence and imagination and memory, and that makes it vulnerable to its glitzy competitors; but a book also rewards us more abundantly. The best books invite us to share in a sustained, complex, subtle effort to make sense of things, to understand some portion of our humanity and our universe. As long as there are people hungry for such understanding, there will be people hungry for books. My own hunger set in long before I could read, back when ink marks on the page were still a mystery, and yet even now, after devouring so many thousands of books, I am as ready and hungry for books as ever.
In the context of the reading, which word from this paragraph has the closest meaning to “weak?”
A. Subtle
B. Sustained
C. Vulnerable
C. Vulnerable
All these years later, after making more than twenty books of my own, I still feel the miraculous power in language, whether written or spoken, the same power I felt when I sang a train into motion and I learned the name of Snake, and Sandra taught me the alphabet on the screened porch of our farmhouse in Memphis. How extraordinary, that a few sounds or a few squiggles can stir up people and voices and landscapes in our minds! Like sunshine, like the urgency of spring, like bread, language is so familiar that we easily forget what an amazing gift it is.
Which of the following is the simile from the paragraph above?
A. “I still feel the miraculous power in language, whether written or spoken, the same power I felt when I sang a train into motion…”
B. “How extraordinary, that a few sounds or a rew squiggles can stir up people and voices and landscapes in our minds!”
C. Like sunshine, like the urgency of spring, like bread, language is so familiar that we easily forget what an amazing gift it is.
C. Like sunshine, like the urgency of spring, like bread, language is so familiar that we easily forget what an amazing gift it is.
Each spring, the humpback whales reappear in Hawaii and once more begin to sing. Each new year, they have new themes in their repertoire and have dropped many of the former songs. Sometimes the songs are so loud that the whole hull of your boat resonates and you can hear ethereal moans and cries coming mysteriously, as from nowhere. If you dive into the peerlessly blue water and swim down, you may, with luck, see the singer hanging in the water below you, a cobalt shape in the sapphire depths. The sound penetrates your body, making the air in your sinuses vibrate in sympathy, as though you were sitting within the widest pipe of the largest cathedral organ, and the whole of your tissues are soaked in sound.
What is the purpose in paragraph above for phrases like "the whole hull resonates," "ethereal moans," "sound penetrates your body, making the air in your sinuses vibrate in sympathy"?
A) to persuade the reader that the songs are noisy
B) to help the reader imagine the quality of the sound
C) to explain how sound travels through water
D) to compare the whale's songs with human's songs
B) to help the reader imagine the quality of the sound
Today, using a library that contains millions of volumes, I recognize that my childhood library in Ohio, which seemed so enormous, was actually quite small. It seemed enormous to me because, week by week, year by year, I passed through those library doors into the great world of human thought and art and story. Reading the books I found there, I went on adventures; I dived under the sea and climbed mountains; I met explorers and baseball players and scientists; I learned the names of rocks and birds and butterflies; I learned how to build log cabins, how to launch model rockets, how to trap muskrats; I explored through the past and all over the earth and even beyond the earth; I studied the planets and the stars; I dreamed my way to the beginnings of time and to the ends of the universe.
The descriptive examples in this paragraph do which of the following:
A. Differentiate between childhood expectations and adult experiences
B. Illustrate the power that books have to expand the imagination
C. Reflect on the ways that libraries have changed over the years
B. Illustrate the power that books have to expand the imagination
I'm not foolish enough to believe that books will survive merely because I love them, or because I write them, or because they've shaped my life. By comparison with films or videos or computer bulletin boards, a good book requires more from us in the way of intelligence and imagination and memory, and that makes it vulnerable to its glitzy competitors; but a book also rewards us more abundantly. The best books invite us to share in a sustained, complex, subtle effort to make sense of things, to understand some portion of our humanity and our universe. As long as there are people hungry for such understanding, there will be people hungry for books. My own hunger set in long before I could read, back when ink marks on the page were still a mystery, and yet even now, after devouring so many thousands of books, I am as ready and hungry for books as ever.
This paragraph suggests that books --
A. Will eventually be replaced by other media
B. Offer something deeper than other forms of entertainment
C. Provide people with knowledge not available elsewhere
B. Offer something deeper than other forms of entertainment
A library is a storehouse, preserving what humans have learned, generation by generation, in every land, but it is a storehouse with doors and windows and hallways opening outward to the vast, sprawling, worldwide treasure trove of human knowledge.
The author uses a metaphor in this sentence to --
A. Describe the welcoming architecture and practical layout of libraries
B. Highlight the way libraries continually update their collections
C. Emphasize the role libraries play in collecting and sharing information
C. Emphasize the role libraries play in collecting and sharing information