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Finish Category 3 Category 2 Category 4 Category 1 Start Category 6 Category 5 Finish Category 3 Category 2 Category 4 Category 1 Start Category 6 Category 5 This game will take you through (insert purpose of the game). Click on the first box. Read through the information on the screen, and click on the BEST of the choices. Be careful, though. If you choose the wrong answer, you’ll be taken back to the initial screen, and you’ll have to start over! HAVE FUN! Click here to go back and get started. Which of the following contains a simile? The students read silently during AR time. She ran like a deer. Conscience is the thing that makes us all think twice. The car horn screamed at the pedestrian standing in the middle of the street. Which sentence contains a metaphor? The forest was as quiet as a falling leaf. Big trees fell like toothpicks when Paul Bunyan swung his axe. Babe’s hoof-beats were like thunder resounding through the hills. Paul’s voice was a cannon breaking the silence. Which of the following sentences contain personification? The 8.4a Form A assessment is as easy as pie. He shot across the yard like an arrow. Slowly, silently, now the moon walks the night. He was snoring like a bear. Go to Category 2. Which of the following sentences contain a hyperbole? The students crowded around my desk for candy like a pack of rats. The baby cried out with a shrill, sharp scream. My sister uses so much make-up that when she takes it off, she loses 30 pounds. It was so cold; my arms had goosebumps all over them. Identify the meaning of the figure of speech in the following sentence: When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When life doesn’t seem so great, make the best out of what you’ve got. Everyone should make lemonade from fresh lemons. Everyone loves to drink lemonade . People should live as if life is one big lemonade stand. Identify the meaning of the figure of speech in the following sentence: She had an ice-cube for a heart. She had just had heart transplan t surgery. She needed heart medication. She was a vampire . She was a cold, unfeelin g person. Go to Category 3. Which of the following explains the simile in the following sentence? She studies all the time. She does very well in school; she is as sharp as a tack. She is very smart. She has long, pointed fingernails. She works in the school bookstore. Which of the following explains the hyperbole in the following sentence? I went to a very big picnic. By the time I got to the picnic, I was so hungry that I ate 1000 hamburgers. I was selfish and didn’t want anyone else to have a hamburger. I did not think there would be enough hamburger s at the picnic. I ate a lot of hamburgers . Complete the following analogy: instrument Strawberry is to fruit as clarinet is to: reed music notes Go to Category 4. Complete the following analogy: 3 is to 6 as 4 is to: 5 2 8 16 What is the relationship in the following analogy? Cold is to freezing as hot is to boiling type characteristic operator degree What is the relationship in the following analogy? Happy is to ecstatic as mad is to fuming operator degree characteristic type Go to Category 5. What is the relationship in the following analogy? Measles is to disease as wool is to fabric A C Number B Degree D Operator Type Complete the following analogy: Counterfeit is to fake as A C sport is to baseball B aide is to assistant D currency is to coin humid is to dry Complete the following analogy: Poverty is to wealth as A C B empty is to full clothing is to sweater D debris is to litter vocal is to singer Go to Category 6. His laywer is a shark. The sentence above is an example of-- simile metaphor personification The tree branch reached out and grabbed my hat as I walked under it. The sentence above is an example of-- metaphor simile personification His head was like a pumpkin. The sentence above is an example of-- personification simile metaphor Finish Now you are ready for the 8.4a Form A Assessment If you use what you have learned here, you should have a better chance of getting 100% of the answers correct