Identifying language techniques
Authored by Michaela May
English
8th - 11th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“Time has not stood still. It has washed over me"
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“. . . and snow lay here and there in patches in the hollow of the banks, like a lady’s gloves forgotten.”
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.”
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun"
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.”
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“Past him, ten feet from his front wheels, flung the Seattle Express like a flying volcano.”
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“Her father had inherited that temper; and at times, like antelope fleeing before fire on the slope, his people fled from his red rages.”
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
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