Where the Red Fern Grows Figurative Language Homework

Figurative Language Homework

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Multiple Choice

"The girl pup saved him. Like a cat in a corn crib, she sneaked in from behind and sank her needle-sharp teeth in the coon's back."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"The day hunting season opened, I was as nervous as Samie, our house cat."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"Old Dan...just lay there in the sunshine all stretched out and limber as a rag."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"The starlit heaven was a large umbrella, outspread and with the handle broken off."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"I had never seen a night so peaceful and still. All around me, tall sycamores gleamed like white streamers in the moonlight."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"I took a deep breath and threw back my head to give the call of the hunter, but something went wrong. My throat was an enormous knot. I swallowed a couple of times and the knot disappeared."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"White sheets of water, knocked high in the moonlight by his churning feet. gleamed like thousands of tiny white stars."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"While prowling the woods, I had seen the big tree many times. I had always stopped and admired it. Like a king in his own domain, it towered far above the smaller trees."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"It had taken me quite a while to find a name suitable for the big sycamore. For a while I had called it "the chicken tree." In some ways, it reminded me of a mother hen hovering over her young in a rainstorm. Its huge limbs out over the small birch, ash, box elder, and water oak as if it alone was their protector."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"Little Ann started turning in circles, a whirlwind of excitement."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"At first it wasn't easy. My ax was sharp and the chips flew. Two hours later things were different. My arms felt like two dead grapevines, and my back felt like someone had pulled a plug out of one end of it and drained all the sap out."

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"When my sister came with the lunch bucket, I could have kissed her, but I didn't. She took one look at the big tree and her blue eyes got as big as a guinea's egg.

• simile

• metaphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?

Multiple Choice

"You had better get out of there," I said. "If that tree takes a notion to fall, it'll mash you flatter than a tadpole's tail."

• simile

• mataphor

Open Ended

What is being compared?