2. Finish Start Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 Category 6

3. Finish Start Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 Category 6

4. This game will take you through (insert purpose of the game). Click on the first box. Read through the information on the screen, and click on the BEST of the choices. Be careful, though. If you choose the wrong answer, you’ll be taken back to the initial screen, and you’ll have to start over! HAVE FUN! Click here to go back and get started.

5. Which of the following contains a simile? She ran like a deer. The car horn screamed at the pedestrian standing in the middle of the street. Conscience is the thing that makes us all think twice. The students read silently during AR time.

6. Which sentence contains a metaphor? The forest was as quiet as a falling leaf. Paul’s voice was a cannon breaking the silence. Big trees fell like toothpicks when Paul Bunyan swung his axe. Babe’s hoof-beats were like thunder resounding through the hills.

7. Which of the following sentences contain personification? He was snoring like a bear. Slowly, silently, now the moon walks the night. The 8.4a Form A assessment is as easy as pie. He shot across the yard like an arrow.

8. Go to Category 2.

9. Which of the following sentences contain a hyperbole? The baby cried out with a shrill, sharp scream. My sister uses so much make-up that when she takes it off, she loses 30 pounds. It was so cold; my arms had goose- bumps all over them. The students crowded around my desk for candy like a pack of rats.

10. Identify the meaning of the figure of speech in the following sentence: When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When life doesn’t seem so great, make the best out of what you’ve got. Everyone should make lemonade from fresh lemons. People should live as if life is one big lemonade stand. Everyone loves to drink lemonade.

11. Identify the meaning of the figure of speech in the following sentence: She had an ice-cube for a heart. She was a cold, unfeelin g person. She had just had heart transplan t surgery. She was a vampire. She needed heart medication.

12. Go to Category 3.

13. She studies all the time. She is very smart. She works in the school bookstore. She has long, pointed fingernails. Which of the following explains the simile in the following sentence? She does very well in school; she is as sharp as a tack.

14. I went to a very big picnic. I ate a lot of hamburgers. I was selfish and didn’t want anyone else to have a hamburger. I did not think there would be enough hamburger s at the picnic. Which of the following explains the hyperbole in the following sentence? By the time I got to the picnic, I was so hungry that I ate 1000 hamburgers.

15. reed instrumentnotes music Complete the following analogy: Strawberry is to fruit as clarinet is to:

16. Go to Category 4.

17. Complete the following analogy: 3 is to 6 as 4 is to: 5216 8

18. What is the relationship in the following analogy? Cold is to freezing as hot is to boiling operator typecharacteristicdegree

19. What is the relationship in the following analogy? Happy is to ecstatic as mad is to fuming operator characteristic typedegree

20. Go to Category 5.

21. What is the relationship in the following analogy? Measles is to disease as wool is to fabric NumberDegree OperatorType A D C B

22. Complete the following analogy: Counterfeit is to fake as sport is to baseball humid is to drycurrency is to coin aide is to assistant A D C B

23. Complete the following analogy: Poverty is to wealth as debris is to litter clothing is to sweater vocal is to singer empty is to full A D C B

24. Go to Category 6.

25. His laywer is a shark. The sentence above is an example of-- similemetaphorpersonification

26. The tree branch reached out and grabbed my hat as I walked under it. The sentence above is an example of-- metaphorpersonificationsimile

27. His head was like a pumpkin. The sentence above is an example of-- personificationsimilemetaphor

28. Finish

29. Now you are ready for the 8.4a Form A Assessment If you use what you have learned here, you should have a better chance of getting 100% of the answers correct