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Grade 8 Metaphor CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.8.5

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"The road was a ribbon of moonlight," is an example of which of these literary techniques?
  1. oxymoron
  2. personification
  3. inference
  4. metaphor
Grade 8 Figurative Language
Which of these is an example of situational irony?
  1. Johnsie keeping track of the ivy leaves.
  2. Sue telling Johnsie that her chances for recovery are ten to one (instead of one in ten, as the doctor actually told her).
  3. Mr. Behrman died without knowing he painted his masterpiece.
  4. Both Sue and Johnsie were artists.
Grade 8 Onomatopoeia
Identify the type of figurative language.

The duck quacked at the ground.
  1. personification
  2. hyperbole
  3. simile
  4. onomatopoeia
Grade 8 Figurative Language
Which type of figurative language is being used in the sentence?

She looked as gentle as a lamb.
  1. metaphor
  2. simile
  3. hyperbole
  4. personification
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