LEAP 2025 ELA Grade 8 Practice Questions - LEAP 2025 English Language Arts - Grade 8 Exam

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Read the lines from a poem: The summer heat was a heavy wool blanket thrown over the shoulders of the afternoon, smothering every breeze before it could breathe. Which type of figurative language is used in the first line, and what is its effect?

Hyperbole; it exaggerates time passing slowly Simile; it compares heat to rain using 'like' Metaphor; it directly compares the stifling heat to a heavy blanket to convey discomfort Personification; it gives human thoughts to the afternoon

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Metaphor; it directly compares the stifling heat to a heavy blanket to convey discomfort

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