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ENGLISH--Fiction Space Rock
By Lucy O'Hare
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Question 1
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What is a ghost town?
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Question 2
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What does it mean that Karl was "feelin' sorta blue"?
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Question 4
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Why is the racoon probably tired?
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Question 11
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Would you drive 800 miles to see a rock that fell from space?
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Question 13
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Why does Daddy propose to move the meteorite into town?
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Question 14
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Sister is worried that they will get nothing if they give the rock to the town. What is Daddy's response?
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Question 15
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Karl writes in his poem,
"In the end we had to free it
because our family didn't need it."
Find a sentence Daddy says earlier on this page that means the same thing as these lines.
Question 3
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Both phrases, "ghost town" and "feeling blue" are examples of what kind of figurative language?
simile
onomatopoeia
alliteration
metaphor
Question 5
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What kind of figurative language is "Bam!"?
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Question 6
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"Something passed overhead - like a thundercloud moving a million miles an hour," is an example of two (2) types of figurative language. Which 2?
Simile
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
Question 7
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"The Earth was holding its breath" is an example of which type of figurative language?
Hyperbole
Personification
Metaphor
Alliteration
Question 8
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"Tongue tied" is a common idiom, or figure of speech. What does it mean?
Question 9
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Which two types of figurative language are used here?
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Hyperbole
Question 10
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"Lost his mind" is an idiom, or figure of speech. What does it mean?
Question 12
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Karl calls the meteorites "little stars". What kind of figurative language is this?
personification
simile
alliteration
metaphor