“The Treasure of Lemon Brown” Figurative Language

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence.

Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Read the following sentences.
_{“And you want to play basketball?” His father’s brows knitted over deep brown eyes. “That must be some kind of a joke. Now you just get into your room and hit those books.”}

Based upon these sentences, what is the meaning of the idiom “hit those books”?

• Strike the books to release tension
• Focus on the information to increase learning
• Use the books for target practice
• Read the books to study how to make the basketball team.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Read the following sentence.
“Don’t try nothing’ ‘cause I got a razor here sharp enough to cut a week into nine days!”

What does Lemon Brown mean by his use of the figurative expression “sharp enough to cut a week into nine days”?

• Time can be broken into distinct pieces
• The knife has magical powers.
• There are nine days within a week.
• The knife is extremely sharp.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which choice from the story contains an example of onomatopoeia?

• The car tires hissing
• The voice high and brittle
• The squarish patch of light
• The cracked, dirty shoes

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Read the following passage to answer questions 5 and 6.
“Hard times, boy. Hard times always after a poor man. One day I got tired, sat down to rest a spell and felt a tap on my shoulder. Hard times caught up with me.”
What literary device does the author use?

• simile
• metaphor
•  personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence.  
The voice was high and brittle, like dry twigs being broken, surely not one he had ever heard before.

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Identify the figurative language in the following sentence.

There was a footstep on the stairs, and the beam from the flashlight danced crazily along the peeling wallpaper

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• onomatopeoia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

begin or start

• scalawags
• tenements
• gnarled
• commence

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

A person who behaves badly

• impromptu 
• scalawags
• commence
• tenements

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

​a large building that has apartments or rooms for rent

• gnarled
• tenement
• scalawags
• commence

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4