Tuck Everlasting Figurative Language

Tuck Everlasting

Figurative Language

Types of Figurative Language

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

• Metaphor: A comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as

• Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• Personification: Giving human qualities to nonhuman things 

• Onomatopoeia: Sound words

Let's Identify...

Looking at quotes from Tuck Everlasting, identify the type of figurative language used.

Multiple Choice

"It's mine anyway if it's in the wood. I want some. I'm about dry as dust."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"The sun was just opening its own eye on the eastern horizon and the cottage was full of silence."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Multiple Choice

"The toad, as if it saw their interview was over, stirred again, bunched up and bounced itself clumsily toward the wood."

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Multiple Choice

"Winnie's mind went perversely blank."

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had."

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Select

Choose 2: "The sweet earth opened its wide four corners to her like the petals of a flower ready to be picked, and it shimmered with light and possibility till she was dizzy with it."

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia