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1. Pick the simile in the following extract!

Just like a baby bird in a creepy cage

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2. Pick the metaphor in the following extract!

The girl was almost a statue.

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3. "Rustle" and "Cracking" are examples ............................ . (Complete with a suitable figure of speech!)

Onomatopoeia

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4. Pick the hyperbole in the following extract.

We took the bags and walked for centuries.

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5. Which technique for creating suspense is used here?

Ellipsis

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6. Which techniques for creating suspense are used here?

Block Letters, alliteration, ellipsis

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7. Pick the statements for describing feelings of fear in the following paragraph.

Something in his voice sent a chill up Josh's spine, and his fingers tightened on the handset.

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8. Pick two statements for describing feelings of fright.

He was trembling. His chest quivered and his paws shook.

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9. What sort of figurative language is used here? . . . "grabbed the grasses . . ."

Alliteration

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10. Complete with the suitable idiom. { ____________________! We have to speed up!} a- Bumper to bumper b-Get your skates on c- The cat's whiskers

Get your skates on

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11. To embarrass someone means to ________________________. {a- make his/her toes curl b- flog a dead horse c-prick his/her ears up}

make his/her toes curl

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12. You seem to be _____________________! You are not even trying to solve such a problem. {a- sitting on your hands b- sitting on your legs c-sitting on your knees}

sitting on your hands

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13. The roads are chock-a-block. They are ________________. {a- out and about b- bumper to bumper}

bumper to bumper

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14. Which two words should be blended to form the following portmanteau word? {hangry}

hungry + angry = hangry

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15. Which words should be added to form the following portmanteau words? {chillax - brunch - shero}

chill + relax - breakfast+ lunch - she + hero

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16. Form a portmanteau word! {education + entertainment = ...............................}

edutainment

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