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“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

Test I. Encircle the correct answer.

1. What is a simile?
a. A comparison of two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles
b. A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing
c. Giving inanimate objects human qualities
2. Which of the following is an example of a simile?
a. "Her hair was gleaming."
b. "His feet were like baby dolphins."
c. "The house was monstrous."
3. A simile is a comparison that uses like or as. The narrator used a simile when he compared to a
car on a roller coaster.
a. driving down a hill
b. the size of Santa's sleigh
c. the speed of the train
4. She is the apple of my eye. What type of figurative language is this an example of?
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Personification
5. Which of the following sentences is an example of personification?
a. The slimy eel slithered through the seaweed.
b. The stand of trees was a festival of color that fall.
c. The dandelions stood tall, proudly surveying the rest of the yard.
6. What type of figurative language is being used in the following sentence?
Mary looked at the clock. Time was crawling.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. hyperbole
7. Which is an example of hyperbole?
a. My feet are very sore.
b. I have more homework than you.
c. I have a ton of homework.
d. This sweet tea tastes fantastic.
8. The world’s largest dessert is ________.
a. Sahara b. Gobi c. Arabian
9. The longest river in the World is ________.
a. Nile River b. Yangtse c. Amazon River
10. The traditional Brazillian dance is _______.
a. Samba b. Classical c. Hiphop

Test II.

Interpret the poem and explain your interpretations in 5-8 sentences (10 pts)

11-20. unhurrying, the ivy advances.

Ivy by Do Jong-Hwan Hand in hand, several together, it climbs on, a span’s
(Korean Poem) breadth at a time.
It grasps the despair and will not let go
At times when we feel that
it is a wall, unavoidably a wall, until the despair is all covered in green.
then At times when we shake our heads, saying
without a word ivy goes climbing up the wall. that wall cannot be climbed,
At times when we say that one ivy leaf leads thousands of other ivy leaves
it is a wall of despair and finally climbs over that wall.
with no drop of water, where not one seed can survive,
21-30.

Can You Sing a Song?

by Joseph Morris

Can you sing a song to greet the sun,

Can you sing a song at the close of the day,
Can you cheerily tackle the work to be done,
When weary and tired, the work's put away,
Can you vision it finished when only begun,
With the joy that it's done the best of the pay,
Can you sing a song?
Can you sing a song?
when the day's half through,
When even the thought of the rest wearies you,
With so little done and so much to do,
Can you sing a song?

31-40

The Road Not Taken

And both that morning equally lay
by Robert Frost
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
And sorry I could not travel both
I doubted if I should ever come back.
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
I shall be telling this with a sigh
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
Then took the other, as just as fair
I took the one less traveled by,
And having perhaps the better claim,
And that has made all the difference.
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

41-50

Make a poem about Grade 11-Prudence Section.