Figurative language R.1.4 & Theme R.1.2

Match the word with the correct definition.

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• comparing something saying that it is

• Hyperbole
• comparing using like or as

• Alliteration
• An exaggeration

• Personification

• Repetition of the same letter sound

• Metaphor

• giving an object or animal human traits.

• Simile

Her head was spinning from all of the new information.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

"Life is like a box of chocolates" is considered what type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• simile

What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• YES!

• No

• Boom!

• Go!

The rain ran down the road. 

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

ead the excerpt from paragraph 1.

Change I had known before, and it had been gradual. My father had been a headman once, a person of consequence in our village: I had lived to see him relinquish this importance, but the alteration was so slow that we hardly knew when it came.

I had seen both my parents sink into old age and death, and here too there was no violence. But the change that now came into my life, into all our lives, blasting its way into our village, seemed wrought in the twinkling of an eye.

How does the author use figurative language to contribute to the meaning of the passage?

• by illustrating the close relationship between the narrator and her parents

• by describing the destruction inflicted upon the village

• by highlighting the contrast between slow and abrupt changes

• by summarizing the important experiences that shaped the narrator’s life

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—

The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing—

And Winter slumbering in the open air,

Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!

5 And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

What is the purpose of the personification of Winter in lines 3-4?

• to illustrate the positive effect of having a goal

• to provide visual imagery of the speaker’s surroundings

• to reinforce the overall whimsical tone of the poem

• to relay a natural phenomenon using a poetic device

It was a bitter and cruel experience, and it plunged them into an agony of despair. Such a time, of all times, for them to have it, when their hearts were made tender! Such a pitiful beginning it was for their married life; they loved each other so, and they could not have the briefest respite! It was a time when everything cried out to them that they ought to be happy; when wonder burned in their hearts, and leaped into flame at the slightest breath. They were shaken to the depths of them, with the awe of love realized—and was it so very weak of them that they cried out for a little peace? They had opened their hearts, like flowers to the springtime, and the merciless winter had fallen upon them

Read this sentence from paragraph 2.

They had opened their hearts, like flowers to the springtime, and the merciless winter had fallen upon them.

• to convey a sense of beauty about the couple’s relationship

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  to illustrate how nature played a part in the couple’s relationship

• to emphasize the short time the couple experienced together

• to contrast the expectations of the couple with the reality they experience

The theme is a lesson learned; the moral of the story.

• True

• False