Fahrenheit 451 Figurative Language Test

"He was a luminous cloud, a ghost that made breathing once more impossible."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Irony

"He made toys for us and he did a million things in his lifetime."

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

"The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions."

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

"I've hit the bulls-eye. Look at that sick look on your face."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

"Their covers were torn off and spilled out like swan feathers."

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

"Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll."

• Personification

• Simile

• Analogy

• Metaphor

"The helicopters were closer, a great blowing of insects to a single light source."

• Simile

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

"Another year ticked by in a single hour."

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

"The day was brightening all about them as if a pink lamp had been given more wick."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Irony

"A beetle-taxi hissed to the curb."

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia