Figurative Language Call of the Wild

Shrubs and vines were putting on fresh garbs of green. Crickets sang in the nights, and in the days all manner of creeping, crawling things rustled forth into the sun.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

The gold showed like yellow butter across the bottom of the washingpan.

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• Imagery

• Analogy

• Simile

The load quivered, and from under the runners arose a crisp crackling.

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• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Hal was hurled backward, as though struck by a falling tree.

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Analogy

• Idiom

His heart was not in the work, nor was the heart of any dog.

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• Personification

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• Analogy

The mail was taking on Alpine proportions.

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• analogy

• onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

The red shirt and club represent anger and authority.

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• Personification

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Twice his teeth clipped together, like steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Similie

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow.

• Analogy

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Personification