Where the Red Fern Grows-Figurative Language

"....made my blood boil, like the water in Mama's kettle."

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• foreshadow

• simile

"I was a young Daniel Boone."

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

"A feathery rustle swhished by in the darkness."

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

"I flew to the store."

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

"Some day you may have to live in town. Your mother and I don't intend to live in these hills all our lives..."

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

"The blood froze in my brain."

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

"It was as still as a fence post."

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Select 2 answers: "It screamed it's way into the cave and rang like a blacksmith's anvil against the rock walls."

• personification

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

• simile

"I had seen the time when an old hound like that had given his life so that I might live."

• personification

• metaphor

• foreshadow

• hyperbole

"I felt the air whoosh out between my teeth."

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole