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L. 11-12.5 (Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.)

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Assignment based on Nevada Education Standard L.11-12.5
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Question 1
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Write a list of 5 words and give similes for them, as well as identifying the small differences between the meaning of the word.

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Question 5
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Write a few sentences that include at least three kinds of figurative language. List each type used.

Question 6
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Question 7
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Question 8
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What are the small differences between "skinny", "thin", and "slender' even though they all mean 'not fat'?

Question 9
9.

“The brightness of her cheek would shame those same stars.” What kinds of figures of speech does this line from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" show?

Question 10
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Out of these words which would best fit to replace "conscience" in this sentence “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” from Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mocking Bird"?
Heart
Morals
Awakeness
Mind
A simile is a form of figurative language that compares using like and as.
True
False
This line from Ernest Hemmingway's "The Old man and The Sea" is an example of Metaphor. “Each line, as thick around as a big pencil, was looped onto a green-sapped stick.”
True
False
"More silent seemed the son of Ecglaf  in boastful speech of his battle-deeds, since athelings all, through the earl's great prowess, beheld that hand, on the high roof gazing, foeman's fingers,—the forepart of each of the sturdy nails to steel was likest,— heathen's "hand-spear," hostile warrior's claw uncanny" What kinds of figurative language can be found in this excerpt from "Beowulf"
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
What kind of figurative language doess 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse' represent?
Paradox
Idiom
Hyperbole
Allegory
Which of these phrases use figurative language?
It's raining cats and dogs
My cat's name is Gizmo
Her teeth are as white as pearls
I wake up at 7 am