Figurative Language - "The Tell Tale Heart" (MQZ)

I heard all things in Heaven and in the Earth.

• Hyperbole - (example)
• Alliteration - (example)
• simile - (example)
• alliteration - (definition)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Hearken!... how healthily- how calmly.

• personification - (example)
• allusion - (example)
• Alliteration - (example)
• metaphor - (example)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

A watchman's minute hand moves more quickly than mine did.

• allusion - (example)
• personification - (example)
• simile - (example)
• metaphor - (example)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness.

• metaphor - (example)
• allusion - (example)
• personification - (example)
• simile - (example)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

... precisely upon the damned spot. (reference to Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

• allusion - (example)
• personification - (example)
• metaphor - (example)
• alliteration - (definition)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

...the sound such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.

• allusion - (example)
• simile - (example)
• metaphor - (example)
• personification - (example)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulated the soldier into courage.

• metaphor - (example)
• alliteration - (definition)
• simile - (example)
• personification - (example)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

And now at the dead hour of the night...

• alliteration - (definition)
• simile - (example)
• personification - (example)
• metaphor - (example)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

He was stone dead.

• allusion - (example)
• metaphor - (example)
• personification - (example)
• simile - (example)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

... it was four o'clock in the morning- still dark as midnight.

• personification - (example)
• metaphor - (example)
• simile - (example)
• allusion - (example)
• None

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3