Woodsong Figurative Languagea

"We were, as it happens sometimes, dancing with winter."

Dancing with winter is an example of what?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• foreshadowing

Which example is a simile?

• The dogs sang as they ran.

• He was so surprised that he dropped, ducked, then rose - almost like a rock skipping on a trail.

• She loved raw meat, but she only pretended to like carrots.

• They bounded over the trail even as I watched.

In all my time in the woods, in the wondrous dance of it, I have many times seen predators fail.

In this sentence is an example of

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• flashback

Storm looked much like a brindle wolf, with beautifully slanted eyes.

• Simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Describing his pain when he injured his knee, Paulsen said, "I don't think I passed out so much as my brain simply exploded."

This is an example of what?

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Banties are forever setting on nests hatching out chicks, brooding and clucking, and attacking anything that comes close. Here is an example of what?

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

• alliteration

• hyperbole

There was a grouse gathering gravel for her gizzard.

This is an example of what?

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

Paulsen named one chicken hawk. Why?

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• She ruled the yard with an iron hand.

• woe unto anybody that stepped too close to her chicks

• gathering gravel for her gizzard.

• She hung on and rode him out of the yard, raking his sides like a professional bull rider.

What is the effect of the figurative language below?

She hung on and rode him out of the yard, raking his sides like a professional bull rider.