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The Painting - Figurative Language

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Question 1
1.

Read the sentence from the passage.

"What she did not expect was a dull outing to an antique store combing through other people's junk." (paragraph 1)

What is an antonym for the world dull as it is used in this sentence?

Question 2
2.

Read the sentence from the passage.

"Claire stood frozen, mesmerized by the painting, as the voices of her and the antique owner faded into the background." (paragraph 4)

What is an antonym for the word mesmerized?

Question 3
3.

Match the figurative language with its purpose in the passage.

"stood frozen"

Question 4
4.

Match the figurative language with its purpose in the passage.

"wet hair plastered across her forehead"

Question 5
5.

Match the figurative language with its purpose in the passage.

"brain began piecing things together"

Question 6
6.

Match the figurative language with its purpose in the passage.

"BAM!"

Question 7
7.

Which idea in the paragraph 1 is described with a simile?

Question 8
8.

Which sentence supports the answer in question 7?

Question 9
9.

Choose a sentence that uses idiom to show that miners have come from many different places.

Question 10
10.

Read this sentence.

Ma was not one to sit around.

What does this idiom tell you about Ma?

Question 11
11.

Read this sentence from paragraph 5.

But Ma's first meal paved the way for our family business.

What does the idiom "paved the way" mean?

Question 12
12.

At the end of the story, Joshua says the family "found gold after all." What does he mean?

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In August 1849, our oxen pulled our muddy wagon into a California mining town, and our five-month journey west from Missouri came to an end.
This town had only one wooden building, a store.
But countless tents spread everywhere, like mushrooms after rain.
Men had come from far and wide to mine for gold.
Pa was a gold seeker, too, hoping for a fortune.
Ma and I had come along to help.
She is a good cook.
traveled to a new place