While reading about the World Series of Baseball, a fourth grade ...

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While reading about the World Series of Baseball, a fourth grade class made a list of baseball
  related words and then made a grid to classify the words according to their distinguishing
  characteristics. Those students participated in a (n):
 
  a) Elkonin Box
  b) phonics analysis
  c) miscue analysis
  d) semantic feature analysis

Question 2

Expressions which must be interpreted figuratively such as raining cats and dogs , chip off
  the old block, and skeleton in the closet are known as:
 
  a) metaphors
  b) similes
  c) idioms
  d) refrains

[mistyjohnson]

Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c