WMI Chapters 13-16 Figurative Language

WMI Chapters 13-16 Figurative Language

Three Types of Figurative Language

• Hyperbole: Exaggerated statements or claims, not to be taken seriously

• Simile: A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• Metaphor: A direct comparison of two unlike things.

Multiple Choice

"My sandals were only two notches more comfortable than torture devices." page 82

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"It might as well have been a year since they'd been here." page 83

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"I was so startled I could have dropped dead." page 93

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"His voice was gravelly and powerful like a mountain storm, like thunder." page 93

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"The wild man was trembling, a mountain about to explode." page 93

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"His hands were as big as hams, and his forearms were like fenceposts." page 94

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"I was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Climbing the tree was the devil. Going into the cave was the deep blue sea." page 96

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"A forest of stalagmites ranging in size from baseball bats to the columns of a roman ruin." page 99

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"I came into another great room with six emerald pools, like jewels in a necklace, strung the length of its floor." page 99

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"suddenly every depression in the Swiss cheese wall on my left looked like my rabbit hole." page 104

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"It wasn't possible for the wild man to squeeze through that hole. An anaconda would have an easier time getting through a garden hose." page 105

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"Suddenly, behind a formation that looked like a gigantic frosted cupcake, a brown bear rushed into the stream and swatted one of the seals with a crushing blow." page 108

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"Set back from the terraces were freestanding figures that looked like an army of giants standing guard. The underlying rock that made up their bodies was a rich yellow brown, and it was all topped by layers of bright white calcite icing, giving the giants hoods and capes and teeth and ribs."

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"My eyes ran up the flowing slope on my side of the stream to a small chamber twenty or so feet above, like an open jewel box decorated with mineral encrustations." page 110

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"The stars were out, hard and sharp as diamonds." page 112

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"I was so startled I could have dropped dead." page 93

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor