The Gift of the Magi Figurative Language

"...her hair made her look wonderfully like a truant school boy." What kind of figurative language was used here?

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Jim's watch is compared to jewels of King Solomon

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"Jim had a sudden serious sweetness..."

• assonance

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Life is made of sobs, sniffles, and smiles."

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"And the next few hours tripped by on rosy wings."

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Della leaped up like a little singed cat."

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The author mentioning several references from the Bible, like "King Solomon" and even Magi would be the author's use of:

• illusion

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Allusion is when author's

• compare two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

• author references something external to his or her work such as other characters from another book

• repeating vowel sounds

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Her hair fell like a cascade of brown waters."

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Irony is used in "The Gift of the Magi." Which option shows irony?

• These sacrifices Jim and Della make become useless to each other because of what they gave up.

• Della only had $1.87 at the beginning of the story.

• Jim was shocked at Della's newly cut hair.

• Madame Saffronie tells Della that she buys hair.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4