Figurative Language in The Cay

His voice was rich and calypso, soft and musical, the words rubbing off like velvet.

• Simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

He held my head in his great clamshell hands.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

"Well, you can rest easy, Phillip. The Germans would never waste a torpedo on this old tub."

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• alliteration

The rain sounded like bullets hitting on the dried palm frond roof.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Both of us did our chores with one ear to the sky, listening for the sound of engines.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

He was shivering so hard I could hear his teeth clacking.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

His breath was like air from a furnace.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

I was trembling as he led me to the tree, telling me I should go up just a short way; climb it like a monkey.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopeoia

• personification

Which is a simile?

• The waves do it. Somewhere far off, out beyond the Grenadines, or in that pesky bight off Honduras, a hurricane is spawning.

• It can make a shot all right.

• He had just brought some scallops ashore when we heardthe rifle shot.

• There had been, distinctly, a crack like a rifle or pistol shot.

Which contains an example of personification?

• The air was heavy and hot.

• The sky was flaming red.

• The sea had begun to climb our hill.

• The rain was icy, and I was wet.