Al Capone Does My Shirts Chapter one: Figurative Language

Identify the type of figurative language used in this sentence: (page 3) "I can hear them call the score on a baseball game on Marina Green. Okay, not that close. But still." -Moose

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Identify the type of figurative language used in this sentence: (page 3)

"I want to be here like I want poison oak on my private parts." -Moose

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Identify the type of figurative language used in this sentence: (page 6)

This is the dock guard tower, a popcorn stand on stilts where somebody's dad sits with enough firepower to blow us all to smithereens.

• alliteration

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

Identify the type of figurative language used in this sentence: (page 6)

Besides the guard tower, there's water all around, black and shiny like tar.

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Identify the type of figurative language used in this sentence: (page 6)

A full moon cuts a white path across the bay while the wind blows...

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

Identify the type of figurative language used in this sentence: (page 6)

" ...making something creak and a buoy clang in the distance."

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Identify the type of figurative language used in this sentence: (page 7)

My bed's a squeaky old army cot.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• personification

Identify the type of figurative language used in this sentence: (page 8)

When I sit down, it sounds like dozens of mice are dying an ugly death.

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Challenge! Name the literary device used in this sentence: (page 8)

Who wants to face a convicted felon in your pajamas?

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• rhetorical question

• oxymoron

A haze rises from the bay like a wall of gray closing me off from everything.

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor