Figurative Language & Rhetoric Review

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the 16th century."

-Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to

dream before”

- "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation

is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.

Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere.”

-Walden, Henry David Thoreau

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”

-A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”

-“To Autumn,” John Keats

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast

of the mind.”

-Sand and Foam, Khalil Gibran

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells—

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.”

-“The Bells,” Edgar Allan Poe

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me –

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

And Immortality.”

- “Because I could not stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Allusion

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

  “In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug

laid for the feet of the coming sun . . .”

- “The Red Badge of Courage,” Stephen Crane

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?

A text written to encourage support for the protection of the Florida panther features an interview with a renowned biologist who is an expert on endangered species.

• Ethos

• Kairos

• Logos

• Pathos

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4