Kelas 8 T3W5 - Simile And Metaphor

The line "You're pulling my leg" is____

• simile

• metaphor

• not a simile nor a metaphor

Answer explanation

The line "You're pulling my leg" is an idiom.

An idiom is a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

Examples of idiom :

"kill two birds with one stone"

“when in Rome, (do as the Romans do.)” 

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic, 1998).

A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair. (p. 46)

• simile

• metaphor

• not a simile nor a metaphor

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic, 1998).

Mr Dursley might have been drifting into an uneasy sleep, but the cat on the wall outside was showing

no sign of sleepiness. It was sitting as still as a statue, its eyes fixed unblinkingly on the far corner of

Privet Drive. It didn’t so much as quiver when a car door slammed in the next street, nor when two owls

swooped overhead. In fact, it was nearly midnight before the cat moved at all. (p.11)

The underlined phrase "as still as a statue" is a

• simile

• metaphor

• not a simile nor a metaphor

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic, 1998).

A low rumbling sound had broken the silence around them. It grew steadily louder as they looked up and down the street for some sign of a headlight; it swelled to a roar as they both looked up at the sky – and a huge motorbike fell out of the air and landed on the road in front of them.

If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big to be allowed, and so wild – long tangles of bushy black hair and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins. In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets.

‘Hagrid,’ said Dumbledore, sounding relieved. ‘At last. And where did you get that motorbike?’

The underlined phrases "the size of dustbin lids and like baby dolphins" are ___

• simile

• metaphor

• not a simile nor a metaphor

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic, 1998).

He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. (p. 1).

• simile

• metaphor

• not a simile nor a metaphor

Answer explanation

 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Bantam, 1993)

Where I was big, elbowy and grating, he was small, graceful and smooth. …he was lauded for his velvet black skin. His hair fell down in black curls, and my head was covered with black steel wool. And yet he loved me. (p. 17)

The underlined phrases are _____

• simile

• metaphor

• not a simile nor a metaphor

Answer explanation

 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Bantam, 1993)

Her skin was a rich black that would have peeled like a plum if snagged, but then no one would have thought of getting close enough to Mrs. Flowers to ruffle her dress, let along snag her skin. She didn’t encourage familiarity. She wore gloves too. (p. 78)

The underlined phrases are _____

• simile

• metaphor

• not a simile nor a metaphor

Answer explanation

 

This is a state of grace
This is the worthwhile fight
Love is a ruthless game
Unless you play it good and right
These are the hands of fate
You're my Achilles heel
This is the golden age of something good and right and real

The underlined phrases are ____

• simile

• metaphor

• not simile nor metaphor