Chasing Lincoln's Killer Figurative Language Quiz

"Leale pressed Lincoln's chest and ordered 2 men to manipulate Lincoln's arms like levers on a water pump" Swanson 68).

• personification

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

"Whoever told Booth about the President's plan to attend the play that night had unknowingly activated in his mind an imaginary clock that began ticking down, minute by minute" (Swanson 13).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

".... Exhausted the two men unrolled their blankets on the damp earth, laid down, and gazed up at the immense black sky decorated by the countless points of twinkling lights" Swanson 118).

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• Onomatopoeia

"Clouds threatened another rainstorm" (Swanson 2).

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

"The Union Army had never caught him in action - he was a river ghost to the boys in blue uniforms" (Swanson 118).

• imagery

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

"... ugly grey sky of March 4, 1865 threatened to spoil the great day" (Swanson 1)

• simile

• personification

• Idiom

• imagery

"The river would protect Booth from the angry citizens of Washington" (Swanson 90).

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

• imagery

"He guided them safely through the Zekiah swamp, with its muck, snakes, overgrown vegetation, to the doorstep of Captain Samuel Cox" (Swanson 114).

• alliteration

• metaphor

• idiom

• imagery

"Soldiers heave the corpse like a sack of corn onto the wagon that would bring the body to its 1st stop on the journey...."

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

"A fellow actor describing his eyes as being like living jewels" (Swanson 10).

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• personification