Figurative Language in Night

What type of figurative language is used is the following quote?

"The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed."

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is used is the following quote?

"She looked like a withered tree in a cornfield."

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is used is the following quote?

"Physically, he was as awkward as a clown."

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is used is the following quote?

"...then he broke in two like a dry tree struck by lightning."

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is used is the following quote?

"One day when we came back from work, we saw three gallows rearing up in the assembly place, three black crows."

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is used is the following quote?
"Two lambs with a hundred wolves lying in wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd-- a gift"

• simile 
• personification 
• metaphor
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The line, "He went by me like a shadow" is an example of what type of figurative language

• metaphor

• similie

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"We were withered trees in the heart of the desert." This metaphor compares Elie and the prisoners to withered trees in the desert. This metaphor highlights that they were...

• lifeless, isolated from the rest of the world and alone in an environment that does not support life.

• dry and hot.

• in the scorching sun, shadows of their former selves and running for nothing.

• cold and fearful of the Kapos who are beating them.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is used is the following quote?

"We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse..."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is used is the following quote?

"It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3