Hatchet Figurative Language

All so still looking, so stopped, the pond and the moose and the trees, as he slid over them now only three or four hundred feet off the ground – all like a picture.

 

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition

The memory was like a knife cutting into him.  Slicing deep into him with hate.

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• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition

And there was the tenderness in her voice that she had when he was small, the tenderness that she had when he was small and sick, with a cold, and she put her hand on his forehead, and the burning came into his eyes again and he had turned away from her and looked out the window, forgotten the hatchet on his belt and so arrived at the plane with the hatchet still on his belt.

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition

But between the seventeenth and eighteenth radio transmissions, without warning , the engine coughed, roared violently for a second and died.

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition

Personification is

• An extreme exaggeration.

• a comparison of two unlike object using like or as.

• a word that is equal to a sound effect.

• when a non-human object is given human .characteristics

What is this an example of:
"The pilot's words were a hiss, barely audible." (p.10)

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

What is this an example of:
"And now a jolt took him like a hammerblow, so forcefully..." (p. 10)

• Repetition

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What is this an example of:
"He was stopped. Inside he was stopped.  He could not think past what he saw, what he felt.  All was stopped.  The very core of him, the very center of Brian Robeson was stopped and stricken with a white-flash of horror, a terror so intense that his breathing, his thinking, and nearly his heart had stopped.
Stopped." (p.12)

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

What is this an example of:
"He was alone.
In the roaring plane with no pilot he was alone.
Alone." (p.12)

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Simile

What is this an example of:
"For a second all he heard was the whusssh of the empty air waves." (p.19)

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole