Identifying Figurative Language in Marie Lu's Legend

"...falling, falling, falling like a star to the first floor."

• simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living objects

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

"After an eternity, the headache finally starts to fade."

• simile: comparing two unlike things using the words like or as

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living objects

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

"It feels like a match lit against my skin."

• simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living objects

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

"My injuries are screaming now."

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living things

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

"The loudspeakers that line the roofs of the buildings crackle and pop, and the JumboTrons pause in their ads..."

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living objects

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as

"Her hair smells like bread and cinnamon from the shop."

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living objects

• simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

"She was skinny as a rail, with a tattered shirt and trousers."

• simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living objects

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

"Whenever my hand accidentally brushed or bumped her arm, she would flinch as if burned by steam from a kettle."

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living objects

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as

"...I hear the silver bullets Tess took from my clothes clink together in my pocket."

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living objects

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

• simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as

"A wave of noise hits me--the gurgling and hissing sound that Tess heard earlier."

• hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration

• onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds

• simile: comparing two unlike things using like or as

• personification: giving human qualities to non-living objects