Complex Figurative Language (F451)

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(he is burning something down)

"...his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history."

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

• extended metaphor

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(he is walking home)

"...he slowed as if a wind had sprung up from nowhere, as if someone had called his name."

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

• extended metaphor

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(the books are burning)

"...while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch. . ."

• repetition

• metaphor

• personification

• extended metaphor

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(it is windy)

"The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain."

• imagery

• personification

• simile

• extended metaphor

What type of figurative language is being used in the bolded section?

"How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often . . . torches, blazing away until they whiffed out."

• repetition

• idiom

• simile

• extended metaphor

What type of figurative language is being used in the bolded section?

"How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often . . . torches, blazing away until they whiffed out."

• imagery

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is being used in the bolded section?

"How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often . . . torches, blazing away until they whiffed out."

• imagery

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(he's coming home at night to see his wife)

"Without turning on the light he imagined how this room would look. His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable . . . The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time."

• imagery

• idiom

• personification

• extended metaphor

What type of figurative language is being used here?

"Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow."

• paradox

• idiom

• simile

• personification

What type of figurative language is being used here?

(they are getting bombed)

"As he stood there the sky over the house screamed."

• personification

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor