Summative Test # 1

A. Analyze the sound device or the figurative language exemplified by each of the
following sentences. Write the letter of your answer on the space provided before the
number.
_____1. My alarm clock yells at me every morning.
a. context clues b. simile c. personification d.
onomatopoeia
_____2. This car goes faster than the speed of light.
a. hyperbole b. alliteration c. assonance d. simile
_____3. The team leader moves as brave as a lion.
a. context clues b. simile c. personification d. metaphor
_____4. The sly, slithering snake snuck into the shed.
a. assonance b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. metaphor
_____5 The train made a choo-choo sound and smoke billowed from its chimney.
a. assonance b. onomatopoeia c. personification d. simile
_____ 6. I’m starving! I can devour hundred tons of sandwiches and French fries
any time.
a. assonance b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. metaphor
B. Identify the sound device exemplified in each sentence. Write O for Onomatopoeia,
AL for Alliteration and AS for Assonance.
__________1. In my dream, I was somewhere and I saw the cutler, antler,
battler.
__________2. The house of my friend is hard to reach but when I arrived, I enjoy
the nearby beach.
__________3. The homeless survived in their cardboard palaces.
__________4. “Woosh, woosh” of the howling wind can be heard in darkness.
__________5. I’m starving! I can devour hundred tons of sandwiches and
French fries any time.
C. Identify the figurative language exemplified in each of the following sentences. Write
your answer on the blank provided before each number.
__________1. Your eyes are like stars.
__________2. Her hope was a fragile seed.
__________3. There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service.
__________4. She is as thin as a toothpick.
D. Read each sentence below. Infer the meaning of each underlined idiomatic
expression using its contextual clues. Choose the letter of your answer from the box
below.
a. to study c. good luck e. piece of cake
b. difficult d. feeling ill or sick f. very expensive

____1. Applying for US can be difficult. Break a leg!

____2. These plane tickets to Bali, Indonesia cost an arm and a leg.
____3. I really need to hit the books if I want to pass that English test.
____4 For frequent travelers, packing luggage is just a piece of cake.
____5. I think we’ll have to cancel our trip to Bohol. Sarah’s feeling under the
weather today.
E. Define the ff.:
1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. Hyperbole
4. Personification
5. Irony