Reading Plus 4A- Lesson 3

Reading Plus 4A- Lesson 3

Simile and Metaphor

Multiple Select

Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down.” —Seize the Night, Dean Koontz

The line "my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus" is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

In the following metaphor what is being compared?

"The two white suits, the last teeth of an old man, hung in the closet."

• the closet and teeth

• teeth and the old man

• the suits and teeth

• the old man and the closet

Fill in the Blanks

The following quote, from Gone with the Wind is an example of (simile/metaphor)

“The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.”

Multiple Choice

What is being compared in this passage?

"The woman paused, her red rimmed lips parted into an odd smile, much like that of a dragon looking down at it’s next meal; she brandished two gleaming rows of delicately pointed teeth. “Then I will skin you alive.”

• red lips are being compared to a woman

• pointed teeth are being compared to a knife used for skinning

• a dragon is compared to sharp teeth

• a woman is compared to a dragon

Multiple Choice

Read the excerpt and identify the sentence that uses figurative language.

Grandmother Workman lurched over and grabbed the pale skin of Randal's thin forearm with her leathery hand. The folds and creases beneath her skin coiled themselves out like electrical wiring. They were roughly- textured, as well but they were his favorite hand to hold.

• Grandmother Workman lurched over and grabbed the pale skin of Randal's thin forearm with her leathery hand.

• The folds and creases beneath her skin coiled themselves out like electrical wiring.

• They were roughly- textured, as well but they were his favorite hand to hold.

Multiple Choice

The underlined sentence is which type of figurative language?

Grandmother Workman lurched over and grabbed the pale skin of Randal's thin forearm with her leathery hand. The folds and creases beneath her skin coiled themselves out like electrical wiring, like the bloated, roughly-textured relief map of the world that his mother just posted above his bedside table.

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

To Matilda's parents, she was a scab. A scab being something you have to put up with until the time comes when you can pick it off and flick it away.

Is this an example of metaphor or simile?

• metaphor

• simile