Analyzing the Use and Purpose of Figurative Language

What is the purpose of using figurative language in writing?

• To make the text more engaging and memorable

• To provide literal meanings to words

• To simplify complex ideas

• To create confusion in the reader's mind

What does figurative language add to a text?

• facts about the subject

• imagery to describe the subject

• To simplify complex ideas

• to make a text more complicated

Which of the following would be considered a simile?

• I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to scary movies!

• I fell as I was walking into the kitchen.

• The cat was as fierce as a tiger.

• I like hiking in the woods.

Which of the following would be an example of personification?

• He is a monster on the track!

• The flowers tickled my nose.

• The wind was very fast.

• He danced in the hallway.

Which of the following would be an example of personification?

• The sunlight felt really good.

• The tree was like a guiding light.

• The car groaned as everyone got in.

• My grandmother whistled like the wind.

Why did the author include the following figurative language?

The wind howled and the trees trembeled at the peak of the storm.

• To show the movement of the storm over the different cities in the area.

• To describe the beauty of the trees in the storm as they swayed.

• To show the intensity of the storm by describing the effect on sound and movement.

• To explain how the people felt scared when the storm was at its worst because of how loud it was.

Why did the author include the following figurative language?

My brother glared at me, like he had lasers in his eyes, when he saw I was using his new Xbox Series S/X controller.

• To explain how the author wish he had used the old controller instead.

• To illustrate how intensely his brother was staring which shows he was displeased at what he saw.

• To convey the difference between using the old controller in comparison to the new controller.

• To show how much his brother liked lasers as a superpower and his wish for wanting them.

Why did the author include the following figurative language?

The smells from the panaderia basically dragged me inside; the pan dulce was screaming my name!

• To emphasize the speaker's reluctance and contrast it with their desire for the baked goods.

• To show the superiority of pan dulce over conchas.

• To describe the feeling of the sugar rush from eating the pan dulce.

• To illustrate the smells using movement which shows how addictive sugar is.

Why did the songwriter include the following figurative language?

I feel berserk as a tightrope walker in a three-ring circus

• To draw attention to the speaker's desicion making skills and how they need to be better.

• To illustrate the speaker's feeling of being out of contrl and feeling frenzied.

• To bring awareness to how dangerous of a job it is to be a tightrope walker.

• To show how skilled the speaker is at walking on a tightrope.

Poems are organized in . . .

• lines and scenes

• lines and stanzas

• paragraphs and scenes

• paragraphs and lines