Figurative Language Practice

Read the following Quotes and Identify what type of Figurative Language is being used 1. “Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them creating wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground”

personification wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground

2. “outrageous plainness”

oxymoron Outrageous plainness

3. “Like sometimes if I concentrate very hard I can understand the wind talking with the trees”

the wind talking with the trees PErsONIFICATION the wind talking with the trees

4. “and the door swung slowly outward, creaking on rusty hinges 4. “and the door swung slowly outward, creaking on rusty hinges. Up in one of the elms an old black crow gave its raucous cry, and a woodpecker went into a wild rat-a-tat-tat. Large gray rat scuttled around the corner of the house and Meg let out a stifled shriek.”

onomatapoeia rat-a-tat-tat

5. “Silence fell between them as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.”

as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps simile as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps

6. “clear as mud”

Oxymoron and Simile “clear as mud”

7. “it was as though the dark shadow had somehow reached out with its dark power and touched them so that they were incapable of speech.”

personification the dark shadow had somehow reached out with its dark power and touched them

8. “It reminded Meg of the Cheshire Cat.”

Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) ALLUSION Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland)

9. “kind of darkness … that wanted to eat her…”

Darkness wanted to eat her Personification Darkness wanted to eat her

10. “Was it his words that were ice , or her ears?”

METAPHOR Words were ice

11. “The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal; the lights glowed with steady radiance …”

Purred like a great sleepy animal SIMILE Purred like a great sleepy animal

12. “The curtains, red, with a blue and green geometrical pattern, were drawn and seemed to reflect their cheerfulness throughout the room.”

personification curtains, red, with a blue and green geometrical pattern, were drawn and seemed to reflect their cheerfulness throughout the room

“He’s like the white rabbit,” Meg giggled nervously. 13. “ One white faced man in a dark suit looked directly at the children, said, “Oh dear, I shall be late,” and flickered into the building. “He’s like the white rabbit,” Meg giggled nervously.

He’s like the white rabbit,” Meg giggled nervously Allusion and Simile He’s like the white rabbit,” Meg giggled nervously (Alice in Wonderland)

2 possible answers 14. “She sighed and stretched … her body was bathed in waves of warmth.”

ALLITERATION and metaphor She sighed and stretched waves of warmth