Figurative Language in The Bells

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

What is the use of words and phrases in an unusual way? Writers often use this to make their writing more colorful, powerful, and interesting. Examples include simile, metaphor, irony, and personification.

• Text Features

• Sensory Images

• Figurative Language

• Rhyming Couplet

A simile... 

• Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it

• Big exaggeration, usually with humor

• A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as

• The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

Snap, crackle, and pop are examples of this. 

• Personification 

• Hyberbole 

• Onomatopeoia

• Simlie 

The poet uses _________________ to bring out how the bells are ringing nonstop.

• metaphors

• similes

• onomatopoeia

• allusions

Some onomatopoeia that Edgar Allan Poe uses are "________", "__________" and "_________".

• Sledges, bells, melody

• Tinkle, jingling, tintinnabulation

•  Wells, bells, tintinnabulation

•  Runic, oversprinkle, crystalline

What type of figurative language is used here:  How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle 

• metaphor

• simile

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is used in the line 'How they clang, and clash, and roar!' from 'The Bells'?

• A) Metaphor

• B) Simile

• C) Onomatopoeia

• D) Personification

In 'The Bells', which figurative language technique is used to describe the sound of the bells as 'tintinnabulation'?

• A) Alliteration

• B) Onomatopoeia

• C) Hyperbole

• D) Metaphor

Which of the following lines from 'The Bells' is an example of personification?

• A) 'How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle'

• B) 'In the icy air of night!'

• C) 'To the swinging and the ringing'

• D) 'What a world of merriment their melody foretells!'