Figures of Speech

Which of the excerpts below includes a metaphor?

• They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes.

• She was an old photograph dusted from an album...

• “It’s like a penny,” she said once, eyes closed.

• A boom of thunder startled them...

8. What type of figurative language is present in this sentence?

9. Then they closed the door and heard the gigantic sound of the rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

8. Read this sentence and answer the question that follows:

   A boom of thunder startled them and like leaves before a new hurricane,

9. they tumbled upon each other and ran.

What are the children being compared to in this simile?

• leaves tumbling

• thunder startling

• hurricane approaching

• wind howling

Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows.

“It’s like a penny,” she said once, eyes closed.

In what way is the sun like a penny?

• they are both expensive

• they are both round

• they are both hidden

• they are both common on Venue

Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows.

“It’s like a fire,” she said, “in the stove.”

In what way is the sun like a fire?

• they are both warm and bright

• they are both dying out

• they are both common on Venus

• they are both hidden

What figure of speech is present in this sentence?

The rain is like a clear bead necklace.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

What figure of speech is present in this sentence?

The sun came for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

What figure of speech is present in this sentence?

The coin is big enough to buy the whole world.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

What figure of speech is present in this sentence?

They felt the sun on their cheeks like a warm iron.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

What figure of speech is present in this sentence?

The children are like wild animals running in the yard.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole