Figurative Language Using Crawdads

Figurative Language Using Where The Crawdads Sing

By Gracie Parker

Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Allusion

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Most Common Uses of Figurative Language

Simile

A comparison using "like" or "as"

Quote from novel:
" “Nobody's come close to filling their brains…We're all like giraffes not using their necks to reach the higher leaves.”

Metaphor

​A comparison that does not use "like" or "as"

Quote from novel:
" “The shack sat back from the palmettos, which sprawled across sand flats to a necklace of green lagoons and, in the distance, all the marsh beyond.”

Multiple Select

What is the difference between similes and metaphors?

• Similes use "as"

• Only Metaphor can compare things.

• Similes use "like"

• Neither

Personification

​When authors give human qualities to inanimate objects

Quote from the novel:
" Heavy swamp air stood behind them, waiting patiently for its turn".

Poll

Personification gives human qualities to living things

• True

• False

• Neither

• Both

Allusion

​Reference to a well- known object or work

In Crawdads, Owens refers to Atlanta Crackers, The Bible, and Chapel Hill to name a few

Foreshadowing

Refers to something that will happen

Quote from novel:
"Shells the best secret keeper of all!"