Sign of the Beaver, Figurative Lang. 1-10

“At the edge of the clearing there were trees to fell to let in more sun on the growing corn, and the underbrush that

kept creeping closer over the cleared ground.”

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

“The grunt of a porcupine rummaging in the garden. The boom of the great horned owl.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

“The lump in Matt’s throat felt as big as

the watch.”

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

“...Instead of standing there tongue-tied”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

“He dared not waste his precious powder.”

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

“A bluejay screeched a warning”

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

“His body was no longer on fire.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

“As fast as he pulled them, new ones sprang up.”

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

“But this silence was different. It coiled around Matt and reached into his stomach to settle in a hard knot.”

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

“He knew his father always kept that rifle as clean as a new-polished spoon.”

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole