Most Dangerous Game Figurative Language

"The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window is what type of figurative language?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"Perhaps the general was the devil" is what type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"He struggles and tried to cry out, but the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face" is what type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"... his thick eyebrows and mustache were as black as the night from which Rainsford had come," what type of figurative language was used in this sentence?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"sleep did not visit Rainsford", what type of figurative language is this?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"It's so dark", he thought," that I could not sleep with my eyes open." What type of figurative language was used here?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"They can crush a ship as easily as I can crush this nut." What is the figurative language used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The lights of the yacht became faint and every vanishing fireflies." What figurative language is used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperboe

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

".. and on three sides of the cliffs divided down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows." What kind of figurative language was used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"He lived a year in a minute." What type of figurative language was used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9