Figurative Language in Douglass' Narrative

Let's start off easy! What do you call a comparison between two different things or ideas, using "like" or "as"?

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

What is a direct comparison between things or ideas? (Saying that one thing IS another.)

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Douglass compared being illiterate to "mental darkness".

This is a...

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

The mistress' attitude became one of "tiger-like fierceness."

This is a...

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What does Douglass express about the Mistress when he compares her attitude to that of a tiger?

• She is strong and brave

• She is angry and threatening

• She is exotic and beautiful

The mistress' changed and her "tender heart became stone."

This is a...

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

What does Douglass express about the Mistress when he says her heart became stone?

• She is as still as a statue

• She is cold, hard-hearted

• Her heart is strong

Douglass said that the neighborhood kids "would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge." This is a...

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

What does Douglass express about reading when he compares knowledge to bread?

• He is starving

• It feeds his mind

• Both are delicious

• Both are stolen

"[Freedom] looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind..."

This is....

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile