Retake Rikki vocab/figurative language

"...Rikki Tikki dragged himself to Teddy's bedroom and spent half the rest of the night shaking himself tenderly to find out whether he really was broken into forty pieces, as he fancied."

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• personification
• onomatopoeia

I know that this is an example of alliteration, however, what other figurative language does it represent. "..a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane"

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• personification

"Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog..."  What figurative language does this represent.

• alliteration
• metaphor
• personification
• simile

"He whimpers and cheeps all night, trying to run into the middle of the room..."

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• hyperbole

"Do you think a snake killer kills muskrats?"

• alliteration
• idiom
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Fill in with the correct word.
"...he was lying in the hot sun in the middle of a garden path, very ________________..."

• sluice
• draggled
• bungalow
• cowered

Fill in with the correct word.
"...as Rikki-tikki stole in by the ______________ curb where the bath is put..."

• purchase
• sluice
• masonry
• immensely

Fill in with the correct word.
"Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthen ware to hold down the head." This gave him one second's _____________, and he made the most of it."

• masonry
• purchase
• cowered
• providence

Fill in with the correct word.
"The _____________Rikki-tikki caught him by the head and held fast.

• valiant
• purchase
• immensely
• masonry

Fill in with the correct word.
"he had saved Teddy from death, and Teddy's father said that he was a _________________."

• bungalow
• sluice
• cowered
• providence