Identify the figurative language being used:

his hair is red as a fire engine.

a)
understatement

b)
personification

c)
metaphor

d)
simile

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question 5
identify the figurative language being used:

the fire swallowed the entire forest.

question 5 options:

a)
metaphor

b)
analogy

c)
irony

d)
personifcation

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question 6
identify the figurative language being used:

we were all singing at the top of our lungs.

question 6 options:

a)
idiom

b)
irony

c)
simile

d)
understatement

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question 7
identify the figurative language being used:

how a doctor diagnoses diseases is like how a detective investigates crimes.

question 7 options:

a)
idiom

b)
analogy

c)
metaphor

d)
hyperbole

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question 8
identify the figurative language being used:

the name of britain’s biggest dog was “tiny”.

question 8 options:

a)
simile

b)
idiom

c)
irony

d)
hyperbole

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2. which of the following topics would be too broad for a speech lasting 5 to 10 minutes?

“skateboarding is a sport combining grace, courage and skill, and here we see it being born.” based on this passage, what inference can you make about the author’s opinion of skateboarding? a. the author does not think skateboarding is a ‘real’ sport. c. the author feels skateboarding should be illegal. b. the author feels skateboarding is only appealing to very young children. d. the author respects and appreciates skateboarding as a sport.

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.