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Term-3- week 7
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Figurative Language Test 1

Directions: Choose only one answer. You are responsible for making clean marks and
erasing your mistakes. Try your best. When you are done, check your answers.

SECTION 1 – DEFINITIONS: Match the term with the definition. Shade in the appropriate
bubble.
For questions 1 through 4. Not all of the choices are used.

1. metaphor A. exaggeration for effect

2. alliteration B. comparison of two or more things using “like” or “as”

3. simile C. when one idea or sentence is stretched over two or more lines.

4. hyperbole D. repeating the same starting sounds of words.

E. comparison of two or more things not using “like” or “as”

For questions 5 through 8. Not all of the choices are used.

5. rhythm A. repeating the same starting sounds of words.

6. repetition B. when one idea or sentence is stretched over two or more lines.

7. rhyme C. a regular pattern of stresses, like a beat.

8. enjambment D. when a poet repeats a word or words to emphasize

E. when two words share the same final sound

For questions 9 through 12. Not all of the choices are used.

9. personification A. when a words pronunciation imitates its sound

10. onomatopoeia B. when the outcome of a situation is the exact opposite of what was expected

11. imagery C. giving human traits or characteristics to an object or idea

12. irony D. writing that uses the five senses to create “pictures”

E. exaggeration for effect

SECTION 2 – EXAMPLES
Directions: Read the following examples of figurative language. Identify the poetic device
that is most clearly being used. Choose the best answer. Shade in the appropriate bubble on
your Scantron form.

13. When you, my Dear, are away, away, / How wearily goes the day.
A year drags after morning, and night / Starts another year
a. metaphor b. onomatopoeia c. irony d. simile e.
hyperbole

14. Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
a. enjambment b. metaphor c. simile d. onomatopoeia e.
repetition

15. Gracefully she sat down sideways, / With a simper smile

a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification e.
alliteration

16. Drip—hiss—drip—hiss— fall the raindrops.

a. metaphor b. hyperbole c. personification d. onomatopoeia e.
simile

17. The fountain tossed its water, / Up and up, like silver marbles.
a. simile b. hyperbole c. rhyme d. metaphor e.
idiom

18. Falstaff sweats to death, as he walks along; / Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
a. rhyme b. personification c. simile d. metaphor e.
hyperbole

19. Lives of great men remind us / We can make our lives sublime;
And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time.
a. simile b. metaphor c. onomatopoeia d. personification e.
hyperbole

20. His sorrow goes / Like mountain snows / In waters sweet and clear,
a. simile b. hyperbole c. metaphor d. onomatopoeia e.
repetition

21. The tear-drop trickled to his chin: / There was a meaning in her grin
a. hyperbole b. rhyme c. repetition d. simile e.
metaphor
22. All night long with rush and lull / The rain kept drumming on the roof:
a. simile b. hyperbole c. repetition d. personification
e. rhyme

23. The child with / her infinite energy / would run / her parents to / the ground
a. metaphor b. simile c. hyperbole d. personification
e. repetition

24. My love is like a red, red rose.

a. repetition b. personification c. onomatopoeia d. metaphor
e. rhyme

25. When the stooping sky / Leans down upon the hills
a. hyperbole b. personification c. metaphor d. simile
e. repetition

26. There’s a patch of old snow in a corner.

a. simile b. metaphor c. imagery d. irony
e. repetition

SECTION 3 – WHOLE POEMS: Read the poems and the questions. Choose the BEST
answer.

We Wear the Mask Poet Among Barbarians

Paul Laurence Dunbar By: John Gould Fletcher

We wear the mask that grins and lies, The rain drives, drives endlessly,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-- Heavy threads of rain;
This debt we pay to human guile1; The wind beats at the shutters,
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, The surf drums on the shore;
And mouth with myriad2 subtleties3. Drunken telephone poles lean sideways;
Dank summer cottages gloom hopelessly;
Why should the world be overwise, Bleak factory-chimneys are etched on the filmy
In counting all our tears and sighs? distance,
Nay, let them only see us, while Tepid1 with rain.
We wear the mask. It seems I have lived for a hundred years
Among these things;
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries And it is useless for me now to make complaint
To thee from tortured souls arise. against them.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile4 For I know I shall never escape from this
Beneath our feet, and long the mile; Dull barbarian country,
But let the world dream otherwise, Where there is none now left to lift a cool jade
We wear the mask! winecup,
Or share with me a single human thought.
1. Guile: treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
2. Myriad: a vast number; many.
3. Subtleties: being difficult to detect.
4. Vile: loathsome; disgusting. 1. Tepid: only slightly warm; luke warm.
27. Which of the above poems has a continuous rhythm?
a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
c. Neither of these poems d. Both of these poems

28. Which of the above poems use rhyme?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
c. Neither of these poems d. Both of these poems

29. Which of the above poems uses more hyperbole?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians

30. Which of the above poems uses enjambment?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
c. Neither of these poems d. Both of these poems

31. Which of the above poems uses metaphor?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
c. Neither of these poems d. Both of these poems

32. Which of the above poems uses simile?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
c. Neither of these poems d. Both of these poems

33. Which of the above poems uses repetition?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
c. Neither of these poems d. Both of these poems

34. Which of the above poems uses more personification?

a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians

35. In which of the above poems does the speaker use a pleasant or joyful tone?
a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
c. Neither of these poems d. Both of these poems

A Patch of Old Snow Bee, I’m Expecting You!

Robert Frost Emily Dickenson

There’s a patch of old snow in a corner Bee, I’m expecting you!

That I should have guessed Was saying yesterday
Was a blow-away paper the rain To somebody you know
Had brought to rest. That you were due.

The frogs got home last week,

It is speckled with grime as if Are settled and at work,
Small print overspread it, Birds mostly back,
The news of a day I’ve forgotten— The clover warm and thick.
If I ever read it.
You’ll get my letter by
The seventeenth; reply,
Or better, be with me.
 Yours,
Fly.

36. Which of the above poems uses rhyme?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You c. neither d. both

37. Which of the above poems uses more personification?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You

38. Which of the above poems uses simile?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You c. neither d. both

39. Which of the above poems uses hyperbole?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You c. neither d. both

40. Which of the above poems resembles a letter?

a. A Patch of Old Snow b. Bee, I’m Expecting You c. neither d. both

Spelling Test:
The Lottery Ticket
By Anton P. Chekhov
Directions: Read the short story and answer the questions that follow. Refer to the text to check your
answers.
Ivan Dmitritch, a middle-class man who lived with "Well, now look!"
his family on an income of twelve hundred a year "Wait a little. We have plenty of time to be
and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on disappointed. It's on the second line from the top, so
the sofa after supper and began reading the the prize is seventy-five thousand. That's not money,
newspaper. but power, capital! And in a minute I shall look at
"I forgot to look at the newspaper today," his wife the list, and there--26! Eh? I say, what if we really
said to him as she cleared the table. "Look and see have won?"
whether the list of drawings is there." The husband and wife began laughing and staring at
"Yes, it is," said Ivan Dmitritch; "but hasn't your one another in silence. The possibility of winning
ticket expired?" bewildered them; they could not have said, could not
have dreamed, what they both needed that seventy-
"No, I bought it on Tuesday." five thousand for, what they would buy, where they
"What is the number?" would go. They thought only of the figures 9,499
and 75,000 and pictured them in their imagination,
"Series 9,499, number 26." while somehow they could not think of the
"All right... we will look... 9,499 and 26." happiness itself which was so possible.
Ivan Dmitritch had no faith in lottery luck, and would Ivan Dmitritch, holding the paper in his hand,
not, as a rule, have consented to look at the lists of walked several times from corner to corner, and only
winning numbers, but now, as he had nothing else to when he had recovered from the first impression
do and as the newspaper was before his eyes, he began dreaming a little.
passed his finger downwards along the column of "And if we have won," he said--"why, it will be a
numbers. And immediately, as though in mockery of new life, it will be a transformation! The ticket is
his skepticism1, no further than the second line from yours, but if it were mine I should, first of all, of
the top, his eye was caught by the figure 9,499! course, spend twenty-five thousand on real property
Unable to believe his eyes, he hurriedly dropped the in the shape of an estate; ten thousand on immediate
paper on his knees without looking to see the number expenses, new furnishing... travelling... paying
of the ticket, and, just as though he had drank a glass debts, and so on... The other forty thousand I would
of cold water, he felt an agreeable chill in the pit of put in the bank and get interest on it."
the stomach; tingling and terrible and sweet!
"Yes, an estate, that would be nice," said his wife,
"Masha, 9,499 is there!" he said in a hollow voice. sitting down and dropping her hands in her lap.
His wife looked at his astonished and panic-stricken "Somewhere in the Tula or Oryol2 provinces... In
face, and realized that he was not joking. the first place we shouldn't need a summer villa, and
besides, it would always bring in an income."
"9,499?" she asked, turning pale and dropping the
folded tablecloth on the table. And pictures came crowding on his imagination,
each more gracious and poetical than the last. And in
"Yes, yes... it really is there!" all these pictures he saw himself well-fed, serene,
"And the number of the ticket?" healthy, felt warm, even hot! Here, after eating a
summer soup, cold as ice, he lay on his back on the
"Oh, yes! There's the number of the ticket too. But burning sand close to a stream or in the garden under
stay... wait! No, I say! Anyway, the number of our a lime-tree... It is hot... His little boy and girl are
series is there! Anyway, you understand..." crawling about near him, digging in the sand or
Looking at his wife, Ivan Dmitritch gave a broad, catching ladybirds in the grass. He dozes sweetly,
senseless smile, like a baby when a bright object is thinking of nothing, and feeling all over that he need
shown it. His wife smiled too; it was as pleasant to not go to the office today, tomorrow, or the day
her as to him that he only mentioned the series, and after. Or, tired of lying still, he goes to the hayfield,
did not try to find out the number of the winning or to the forest for mushrooms, or watches the
ticket. To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of peasants catching fish with a net. When the sun sets
possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling! he takes a towel and soap and saunters to the
bathing-shed, where he undresses at his leisure,
"It is our series," said Ivan Dmitritch, after a long
silence. "So there is a probability that we have won. slowly rubs his bare chest with his hands, and goes
It's only a probability, but there it is!" into the water. And in the water, near the opaque3
“Yes, it would be nice to buy an estate," said his soapy circles, little fish flit to and fro and green
wife, also dreaming, and from her face it was evident water-weeds nod their heads. After bathing there is
that she was enchanted by her thoughts. tea with cream and milk rolls... In the evening a
walk or vint4 with the neighbors.
Ivan Dmitritch pictured to himself autumn with its
rains, its cold evenings, and its St. Martin's5 Vocabulary
summer. At that season he would have to take longer 1. skepticism: doubt or disbelief
walks about the garden and beside the river, so as to 2. Tula & Oryol: Russian cities along rivers south of
get thoroughly chilled, and then drink a big glass of Moscow
vodka and eat a salted mushroom or a soused 3. opaque: allowing little light to pass through
cucumber, and then--drink another... The children 4. vint: a Russian card game similar to Bridge
would come running from the kitchen-garden, "Of course, all that is silly nonsense," he thought;
bringing a carrot and a radish smelling of fresh "but... why should she go abroad? What would she
earth... And then, he would lie stretched full length make of it? And yet she would go, of course... I can
on the sofa, and in leisurely fashion turn over the fancy... In reality it is all one to her, whether it is
pages of some illustrated magazine, or, covering his Naples or Klin. She would only be in my way. I
face with it and unbuttoning his waistcoat, give should be dependent upon her. I can fancy how, like
himself up to slumber. a regular woman, she will lock the money up as soon
as she gets it... She will hide it from me... She will
The St. Martin's summer is followed by cloudy, look after her relatives and grudge me every penny."
gloomy weather. It rains day and night, the bare trees
weep, the wind is damp and cold. The dogs, the Ivan Dmitritch thought of her relatives. All those
horses, the fowls--all are wet, depressed, downcast. wretched brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles
There is nowhere to walk; one can't go out for days would come crawling about as soon as they heard of
together; one has to pace up and down the room, the winning ticket, would begin whining like
looking despondently at the grey window. It is beggars, and fawning upon them with oily,
dreary! hypocritical smiles. Wretched, detestable people! If
they were given anything, they would ask for more;
Ivan Dmitritch stopped and looked at his wife. while if they were refused, they would swear at
"I should go abroad, you know, Masha," he said. them, slander them, and wish them every kind of
misfortune.
And he began thinking how nice it would be in late
autumn to go abroad somewhere to the South of Ivan Dmitritch remembered his own relatives, and
France... to Italy... to India! their faces, at which he had looked impartially in the
past, struck him now as repulsive and hateful.
"I should certainly go abroad too," his wife said. "But
look at thenumber of the ticket!" "They are such reptiles!" he thought.
"Wait, wait!..." And his wife's face, too, struck him as repulsive and
hateful. Anger surged up in his heart against her, and
He walked about the room and went on thinking. It he thought malignantly:
occurred to him: whatif his wife really did go
abroad? It is pleasant to travel alone, or inthe society "She knows nothing about money, and so she is
of light, careless women who live in the present, and stingy. If she won it she would give me a hundred
notsuch as think and talk all the journey about roubles7, and put the rest away under lock and key."
nothing but their children,sigh, and tremble with And he looked at his wife, not with a smile now, but
dismay over every penny. Ivan Dmitritchimagined with hatred. She glanced at him too, and also with
his wife in the train with a multitude of parcels, hatred and anger. She had her own daydreams, her
baskets, andbags; she would be sighing over own plans, her own reflections; she understood
something, complaining that the trainmade her head perfectly well what her husband's dreams were. She
ache, that she had spent so much money... At the knew who would be the first to try and grab her
stationshe would continually be having to run for winnings.
boiling water, bread andbutter... She wouldn't have
dinner because of its being too expensive... "It's very nice making daydreams at other people's
expense!" is what her eyes expressed. "No, don't you
"She would begrudge6 me every penny," he thought, dare!"
with a glance at his wife. "The lottery ticket is hers,
not mine! Besides, what is the use of her going Her husband understood her look; hatred began
abroad? What does she want there? She would shut stirring again in his breast, and in order to annoy his
herself up in the hotel, and not let me out of her wife he glanced quickly, to spite her at the fourth
sight... I know!" page on the newspaper and read out triumphantly:
 And for the first time in his life his mind dwelt on the "Series 9,499, number 46! Not 26!"
fact that his wife had grown elderly and plain, and
Hatred and hope both disappeared at once, and it
that she was saturated through and through with the
began immediately to seem to Ivan Dmitritch and his
smell of cooking, while he was still young, fresh, and
wife that their rooms were dark and small and low-
healthy, and might well have got married again.
pitched, that the supper they had been eating was not
doing them good, but lying heavy on their stomachs,
that the evenings were long and wearisome...
"What the devil's the meaning of it?" said Ivan
Dmitritch, beginning to be ill-humoured. "Wherever
one steps there are bits of paper under one's feet,
crumbs, husks. The rooms are never swept! One is
simply forced to go out. Damnation take my soul
entirely! I shall go and hang myself on the first
aspen-tree!"

Vocabulary
5. Saint Martin: a tropical island in the Caribbean Sea
6. begrudge: to give reluctantly
7. rouble: a Russian monetary unit; Russian currency
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The Lottery Ticket | Reading Quiz
1. Which of these statements about Ivan Dmitritch is true at the start of the story?
a. He encourages his wife to play the lottery more frequently.
b. He thinks that playing the lottery is a waste of time and money.
c. He plays the lottery quite often and it angers his wife.
d. He doesn't play the lottery because it is against his religion.

2. Which best describes Ivan and Masha Dmitritch's financial position at the start of the text?
a. They are struggling to survive. b. They are very wealthy.
c. They have everything that they need. d. They cannot afford to eat.

3. Which is not part of Ivan's fantasy?

a. He hunts for mushrooms and watches people fish. b. He reads magazines and falls asleep on
the couch.
c. His children play in the garden and dig in the sand. d. He dances with his wife under the
moonlight.

4. Which figurative language technique is used in the following sentence?

"The bare trees weep, the wind is damp and cold."
a. Personification b. Simile c. Metaphor d.
Hyperbole

5. Which best expresses how the lottery ticket affects Ivan's opinion of his wife?
a. He becomes resentful of her and finds her unattractive.
b. He suddenly acts very nice to his wife because he thinks that she will have money.
c. He does not care about money; he just wants to finish reading the paper.
d. He appreciates her more than ever because her money can solve their problems.

6. Which of these statements about Ivan Dmitritch is false?

a. He thinks that he is more attractive than his wife. b. He wants to go on a vacation alone.
c. He dislikes his wife's family. d. He thinks his wife will spend the money
too quickly.
7. From which perspective is this story narrated?
a. First-Person b. Third-Person Objective
c. Third-Person Limited d. Third-Person Omniscient

8. Which statement best expresses a theme in this text?

a. If you don't play, you can't win. b. Money doesn't buy happiness.
c. You need money to make money. d. Always ask for more than you need.

9. Which of these statements about Masha Dmitritch is false?

a. She thinks bad things about her husband.
b. She knows her husband very well.
c. She would enjoy sharing her winnings with her husband.
d. She is in a worse position for having played the lottery.

10. Which conclusion is best supported by the text?

a. Money gives people the potential to do great and noble things.
b. Just the thought of money can bring out the worst in people.
c. Nothing brings a couple closer together like planning a vacation.
d. It's fun and harmless to dream about winning a lot of money.
Long Response: Answer the following question in complete sentences. Use evidence from
the text.

1. What lesson is the author of this story trying to teach readers with this story? Use text to support
your response.
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