Esperanza Rising Chapters 1-4 Figurative Language Quizs

Esperanza was six years old and loved to walk with her papa through the winding rows, gazing up at him and watching his eyes dance with love for the land.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Esperanza felt her heart drop.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

I knew you would come to your senses, Ramona.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

He wouldn’t be grinning like a proud rooster then.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

He gently touched a wild tendril that reached into the row, as if it had been waiting to shake his hand.

What literary device is being used in this sentence?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

But it wasn’t precisely Mamma’s face, because Papa’s eyes were there too, shaped like fat, brown almonds.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Esperanza’s parents, Ramona and Sixto Ortega, Mama, tall and elegant, her hair in the usual braided wreath that crowned her head.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Wait a little while and the fruit will fall into your hand.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

She watched the silver crochet needle dance back and forth in her grandmother’s hand.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

She swallowed her laughter and after a moment said, ‘I can hear it, Papi.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole