"Casey at the Bat" Figurative Language

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.8.4

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.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

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.8.4

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.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

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.8.5

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.8.10

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.8.4