Me! word bank chirp cute kitty cat whoosh bottomless pit piles of email tick working 24/7 words of wisdom dwayne’s deli and diner directions: complete the chart identifying words and phrases in the word bank as examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole. write each word or phrase in the correct column. alliteration: repeats consonant sounds at beginning of words onomatopoeia: imitate the sound it represents hyperbole: exaggerates actions or events 1. 4. 7. 2. 5. 8. 3. 6. 9. directions: each item is an example of alliteration, onomatopoeia, or hyperbole. write on the line the figure of speech used in the sentence. 10. he can run faster than a racehorse! 11. the snake hissed at the approaching mongoose. 12. i selected a sprig of sage, smelled it, and sighed. 13. i could eat ten pounds of spaghetti right now. directions: write you own example of alliteration, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole using the prompts: 14. hyperbole: tell how long it would take to do a chore; 15. onomatopoeia: write a sentence about what you might hear in or near your home. 16. alliteration: write a news headline about a school achievement.

“third, all reviewers have a bias – no matter how impartial they try to be, opinions on movies are just that: opinions. this isn’t necessarily a bad thing: if you read a review by a critic that you know prefers foreign films, you know how seriously you should take his scathing critique of ironman.” according to this passage, all reviewers a. prefer foreign films c. have bias b. hated the movie ironman d. refuse to watch popular films

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Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion