Rikki-Tikki Vocabulary & Figurative Language

"Chuchundra is a broken-hearted little beast." This is a metaphor but what is the phrase broken-hearted?

• hyperbole
• personification
• alliteratioin
• onomatopoeia

Because the animals in this story speak this is example of what type of figurative language?

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• metaphor
• personification

"I am Death!"  It was Karait...

• personification
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"and he scuttled up and down the garden, snuffling here and there"

• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Rikki-tikki saw the spectacle mark on the back of it that looks exactly like the eye part of a hook-and-eye fastening."

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

"but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world"

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

"It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose"

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• hyperbole
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane" This is a simile, but what other type of figurative language is it?

• metaphor
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

"That's Nag or Nagaina," he said to himself, "and he is crawling into the bathroom sluice."

• toilet
• shower
• drain
• cabniet

"he was lying in the hot sun in the middle of a garden path, very draggled"

• happy and playful
• exhausted and tired
• wet and muddy from being dragged around
• excited about Teddy