Figurative Language and The Hobbit

Which figurative language device has Tolkien used in Chapter 1 about Gandalf the Grey Wizard:

"Tales and adventures sprouted up all over the place wherever he went."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbol

• Personification

What figurative device has Tolkien utilised,

"shaking like a jelly that was melting."

• imagery

• allegory

• metaphor

• simile

Choose the answer that contains the right number of devicespresent in this description from The Hobbit:

''The next morning was a midsummer's morning as fair and fresh as could be dreamed: blue sky and never a cloud, and the sun dancing on the water."

• sensory imagery

• assonance

  personification

  tactile imagery

• alliteration

  personification

  sensory imagery

• olfactory imagery

  metaphor

Answer explanation

"'The next morning was a midsummer's morning as fair and fresh as could be dreamed: blue sky and never a cloud, and the sun dancing on the water."

-Sensory imagery (visual)

-Alliteration "midsummer's morning" and "fair and fresh"

-Personification "sun dancing on the water"

What type of detailed sensory imagery is used most in the opening of The Hobbit,?

"It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats ."

• Olfactory imagery (smell)

• Tactile imagery (touch)

• Visual imagery (sight)

• Auditory imagery

  (sound)

A word that means 'rare and amazing' is

(a)  

A traditional narrative arc contains the following structure in order:

• 1. Exposition

  2. Denouement

  3. Complication

  4. Resolution

• 1. Exposition

  2. Complication

  3. Rising Action

  4. Resolution

• 1. Complication

  2. Rising Action

  3. Exposition

  4. Resolution

• 1. Exposition

  2. Character development

  3. Plot Twist

  4. Tragedy

This simile, when transformed into a metaphor, is most correct...

Simile:

"The pebble flung across the lake like a gymnast completing their floor routine"

• Metaphor:

  "The pebble flung across the lake bouncing like a gymnast completing their floor routine"

• Metaphor

  "The pebble flung across the lake gracefully as if it were a gymnast completing their floor routine"

• Metaphor

  "The pebble flung across the lake, it was a graceful gymnast completing the floor routine"

• Metaphor

  "The pebble flung across the wide lake, the rock bouncing on the waves as a gymnast completing their floor routine"

"The taste of excitement was both salty and sweet" is an example of which device.

• Synaesthesia

  (Gustatory (taste) imagery)

• Olfactory (smell) sensory imagery

• Tactile (touch) sensory imagery

• Personification

Which device has been used?

"Winter spread its icy fingers across the hills, indenting the mountains with snow and frost."

• Motif

• Allegory

• Simile

• Personfication

A motif is..

• A recurring image, idea or object that is used through a text to create added, symbolic meaning.

• Repeating a word or phrase.

• Alliteration

• A poetic device that poets use at the beginning and end of poetry.