Purpose of Figurative Language

Read the sentence from paragraph 4. But Charles remembered Daresbury Parsonage as a happy spot, an “island farm, ’midst seas of corn.” How does the author use rhetoric to support his views about Dodgson?

• The author uses personification to express Dodgson’s preference for solitude.

• The author uses metaphor to illustrate Dodgson’s nostalgia for his family home.

• The author uses irony to emphasize Dodgson’s ability to see the ordinary as exciting.

• The author uses hyperbole to show Dodgson’s connection to nature.

How does the author use rhetoric in paragraphs 1-5 to establish the purpose of the passage?

• The author uses formal scientific language to present information about fats.

• The author uses irony to encourage increased consumption of fats.

• The author uses satire to ridicule people who refuse to consume fats.

• The author uses figurative language to clarify the misconceptions about fats.

What is the effect of the simile on the overall passage?

• It draws a connection between the nutritional values of synthetic fats and essential fatty acids.

• It highlights that synthetic fats are more prevalent and accessible than most essential fatty acids.

• It poses a topic for future scientific inquiry about the relationships between synthetic fats and essential fatty acids.

• It expresses the scientific point that consuming synthetic fats leaves little room for the nourishment provided by essential fatty acids.

Read 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 highlighting the contrast between slow and abrupt changes

• by describing the destruction inflicted upon the village

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

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

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

• to emphasize the short time the couple experienced together

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

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

Read this sentence from paragraph 3. What does the phrase his eyes closing in spite of him mean?

• It implies that he is ill.

• It describes that he is bored at work.

• It shows his efforts to fight exhaustion.

• It illustrates how he is pushed at work.

Over them, relentless and savage, there cracked the lash of want; the morning after the wedding it sought them as they slept, and drove them out before daybreak to work. Ona was scarcely able to stand with exhaustion; but if she were to lose her place they would be ruined, and she would surely lose it if she were not on time that day. They all had to go, even little Stanislovas, who was ill from overindulgence in sausages and sarsaparilla. All that day he stood at his lard machine, rocking unsteadily, his eyes closing in spite of him; and he all but lost his place even so, for the foreman booted him twice to waken him. Read this sentence from paragraph 3. Over them, relentless and savage, there cracked the lash of want; the morning after the wedding it sought them as they slept, and drove them out before daybreak to work. How does the figurative language in this sentence help the reader understand the reality the characters face in the excerpt?

• It reveals the couple’s lack of control over their environment.

• It portrays the couple’s physical pains from their labors both day and night.

• It describes the couple’s inability to spend any time with each other.

• It establishes the couple’s desire to pay back the debt caused by their wedding.

What is the purpose of figurative language?

• To emphasize something or make writing more interesting

• To allow characters to talk in a narrative

• The lesson or meaning of the story

You, with your words like knives

And swords and weapons that you use against me

Taylor Swift - Mean

(Select 2)

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• repetition

She's just a girl, and

she's on fire

Hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway

She's living in a world, and it's on fire"

Alicia Keys - Girl On Fire

(Select 2)

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• simile