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Grade 9 Metaphor
Choose the best example of a metaphor.
  1. Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?
  2. Peace you mumbling fool!
  3. O, speak again, bright angel!
  4. How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!
Grade 9 Identifying Genre
The two types of fiction are poetry and prose.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 9 Metaphor
Metaphor differs chiefly from simile in that metaphor
  1. is used to describe non-human objects in the natural world.
  2. contains many layers of significance.
  3. does not use an explicit comparative word such as like or as.
  4. may be extended over many lines of verse.
Grade 9 Cause and Effect CCSS: CCRA.R.3, RI.9-10.3
Which of the following is NOT a signal word for cause or effect?
  1. Therefore
  2. So
  3. And
  4. Because
Grade 9 Story Elements
What part of a story is the author's feelings?
  1. tone
  2. mood
  3. plot
  4. setting
Grade 9 Figurative Language
Which of the following is an example of a symbolic relationship?
  1. A flag and a nation
  2. A table and a chair
  3. A garden and a tree
  4. A cardinal and an eagle
Grade 9 Point of View
If the narrator of a story is not in the story, the story is most likely written using:
  1. first person point of view
  2. second person point of view
  3. third person point of view
Grade 9 Poetic Devices
A poem with no regular pattern on line length is called:
  1. lyric
  2. narrative
  3. ode
  4. free verse
Grade 9 Story Elements
This part of the story has a conflict, obstacles, and a resolution:
  1. plot
  2. setting
  3. mood
  4. tone
Grade 9 Summarizing
Putting the author's words in your own words is called:
  1. Summarizing
  2. Grouping
  3. Paraphrasing
  4. Concluding
Grade 9 Theme CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.9-10.2

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Based on this passage, what can you infer is the theme of the novel?
  1. friendship
  2. becoming civilized
  3. lying
  4. growing up
Grade 9 Idiom
A shoulder to cry on is someone who
  1. listens to your problems.
  2. shares his food with you.
  3. has a bath every week.
Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.R.4, RL.9-10.4
Which of the following provides the best connotation of the phrase below?

I just put my foot in my mouth.
  1. My foot is tasty, so I stuck it in my mouth.
  2. I just said something really embarrassing.
  3. I just said something truly intelligent.
  4. I just stubbed my toe, so I stuck it in my mouth.
Grade 9 Figurative Language
"Was there slapping a blackjack/Against an open palm..."
This is an example of:
  1. onomatopoeia
  2. assonance
  3. consonance
  4. alliteration
Grade 9 Story Elements
What is the way a writer uses language to achieve certain effects called?
  1. style
  2. foreshadowing
  3. plot
  4. climax
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