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"Casey at the Bat" Figurative Language

Authored by Monet Schelling

English

6th - 7th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 61+ times

"Casey at the Bat" Figurative Language
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is used in line 12?


"So on that stricken multitude a deathlike silence sat;"

alliteration

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is used in line2?


"The score stood two to four, with but an inning left to play."

alliteration

onomatopoeia

simile

personificaiton

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is used in lines 33-34?


"From the benches, filled with people, there went up a muffled roar,/ Like the beating of the storm waves on the stern and distant shore."

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

personification

simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of figurative language do the underlined words in line 17 represent?


"It rumbled in the mountaintops, it rattled in the dell;"

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

simile

personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is used in line 3?


"So, when Cooney died at second, and Burrows did the same,"

alliteration

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is used in line 26?


"Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt;"

alliteration

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is used in line 48?


"And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow."

alliteration

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

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