Identifying language techniques

“Time has not stood still. It has washed over me"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

“. . . and snow lay here and there in patches in the hollow of the banks, like a lady’s gloves forgotten.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

“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

“In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

“She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

“Past him, ten feet from his front wheels, flung the Seattle Express like a flying volcano.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

“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

"All the world’s a stage / And all the men and women merely players"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"The parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole