Esperanza Rising Ch.5-6 Figurative Language Quizs

The locomotive arrived pulling a line of cars and hissing and spewing steam.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

But this time, she was buried beneath a mountain of guavas and could not wave to anyone.

• Metaphor and Alliteration

• Simile and Hyperbole

• Personification and Irony

• Imagery and Symbolism

He [Miguel] seemed as happy as Esperanza was irritable.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Delicate and frail, with big brown eyes, long braids, and skinny legs, she, [Isabel] looked like a young deer.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Flat and spacious, it [the San Joaquin Valley] spread out like a blanket of patchwork fields.

What literary device is used in this statement?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

As they rounded a curve, it appeared as if the mountains pulled away from each other, like a curtain opening on a stage, revealing the San Joaquin Valley beyond.

What literary device is used in this sentence?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Suddenly, the world went black.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allegory

• Personification

On one side of the highway, acres of grapevines stretched out in soldiered rows and swallowed up the arbors.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Everything seemed to remind her of what she had left behind: the nopales reminded her of Abuelita who loved to eat prickly pear cactus.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

What’s the matter, silver spoon stuck in your mouth?

• Metaphor and Simile

• Alliteration and Idiom

• Hyperbole and Personification

• Oxymoron and Paradox