Figurative Language Checkpoint

"His mind was a kaleidoscope of shock, pain, and disappointment." - N.H. Senzai (Shoot Kabul)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

"Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just about my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun." - Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

"David Donald Do dreamed a dozen doughnuts and a duck-dog, too." - Dr. Seuss (ABC Book)

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

"Soda attracted girls like honey attracted flies." - S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personfication

• Hyperbole

"JB and I are two basketball goals at opposite ends of the court." -Kwame Alexander (The Crossover)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

"You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise." - Maya Angelou (Still I Rise)

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." - Shakespeare (As You Like It)

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

"Crack!" It was like a rifle shot! -Roald Dahl (Boy)

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

"All Eliza needed was one first and she could probably have handled the teasing. Maybe even laughed it off. But alone, it was a tsunami." - Nora Baskin Raleigh (Nine Ten)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"I tugged again at my collar and dragged my feet in the dust, allowing it to sift back onto my socks and shoes like gritty red snow." -Mildred Taylor (Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry)

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor