Figurative Language

A simile is...

• clues or hints about what will happen next in the story

• a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• a repeating pattern

• giving non-humans human characteristics

A metaphor is...

• comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use "like" or "as"

• contradictions paired together (loving hate)

• clues or hints about what will happen later in the story

Giving human characteristics to something non-human is called...

foreshadowing is...

• a comparison between two unlike things

• when you give a nonhuman thing human characteristics

• hints or clues about what will happen later in the story

Imagery is...

• Descriptive language used to appeal to a reader's senses

• Pictures used every few pages in a book

• Something not real

A motif (like glasses, fire, and the conch) is...

• another word for a metaphor (comparison of two unlike things)

• a repeated pattern that helps develop the story, theme, and mood

"All round him the...jungle was a bath of heat". This is an example of...

• a simile

• a metaphor

• personification

• a motif

"A blur of sunlight was crawling across his hair". This is an example of...

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Some quotes have multiple devices. Which three are in this quote: "He...stood there among the skull-like coconuts with green shadows from the palms and the forest sliding over his skin"

• simile (skull-like)

• metaphor (skull-like)

• diction (sliding over his skin)

• imagery (sliding over his skin)

"Their faces were lit redly from beneath. Piggy fell against a rock and clutched it with both hands." What device do you see here?

• metaphor (comparison of two unlike things)

• personification (giving nonhuman things human traits)

• imagery (words used to engage the reader's sense of sight)