Figurative Language

'Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant when he made Hamlet say, 'My tablets! Quick, my tablets! 'tis meet that I put it down,'

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Metaphor

"....more like the hand of a dead than a living man.”

• Dramatic Irony

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Allegory

'I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the super sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there.'

• Dramatic Irony

• Alliteration

• Personificiation

• Allusion

A phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.

• Allusion

• Allegory

• Metaphor

• Idiom

At the start of the novel, when all the villagers are warning Johnathan not to go to the castle.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Foreshadowing

• Alliteration

"Sweet, it was in one sense, honey sweet, and sent the same tingling through the news as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness..."

• Simile

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Contrast

"With great masses of golden hair and eyes like sapphires."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Allegory

"I lay quiet, looking out from under my eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation."

• Allusion

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

"The Count's warning came into my mind but I took pleasure in disobeying it."

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Personification

• Allegory

"Many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Allegory