"Old Marley was as dead as a doornail."
A Christmas Carol Figurative Language

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English
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8th - 12th Grade
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Hard
Margaret Anderson
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12 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
personification
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Hard and sharp as flint."
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
". . . the houses opposite were mere phantoms."
personification
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a gothic window in the wall . . ."
metaphor
personification
alliteration
allusion
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Piercing, searching, biting cold."
allusion
onomatopoeia
alliteration
personification
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
'Upon its coming in, the dying flame leapt up, as though it cried, "I know him! Marley's ghost!" and fell again.'
onomatopoeia
metaphor
personification
alliteration
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"All these boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it."
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
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