Figurative Language

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

"In my dream . . . three great-winged birds with voices like thunder rode wild waves in our bay."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

"The baby canoes spat out many strange creatures, men but not men."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

 ". . . each great canoe gave birth to many little ones that swam awkwardly to our shore.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

"We did not know them as human beings, for they hid their bodies in colors, like parrots."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

"Many of them had hair growing like bushes on their chins."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

"The hand felt like flesh and blood, but the skin was moon to my sun."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

"Not like talking but like the barking of a yellow dog."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

"And they gave hollow shells with tongues that sang chunga-chunga."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

 ". . . with tongues that sang chunga-chunga."

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration

What kind of figurative language is this quote an example of:

"I leaned forward and stared into their chief’s eyes. They were blue and gray like the shifting sea."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification