3.1.12 figurative language (poet's toolbox)

You are simply the sun in my sky.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Choose two:

Death crept in like a thief and without a word, stole what was most dear to me.

• allusion

• juxtaposition

• personification

• simile

Abraham Lincoln, what would you say today?

• apostrophe

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Three are included, one is not. Which is NOT included?

My mother was the rock of our family, my father was like the hot air balloon.

• Juxtaposition

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

He came in, like a whirlwind.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• illusion

Pick two:

He was like a modern day Moses.

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• alliteration

Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• assonance

O, Life, why are you so hard?

• assonance

• allusion

• apostrophe

• alliteration

While my elementary school was like picking at cotton candy, junior high was more like trying to eat a caramel apple with braces.

• juxtaposition

• apostrophe

• repetition

• assonance

Pick two:

When I ran away, I ran fast, and I ran fearfully, and I ran far.

• repetition

• alliteration

• simile

• juxtaposition