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"I'd catch a grenade for ya."

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification

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The drumbeats sounded like distant thunder.
What type of figurative language is used?

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

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What is figurative language?

• language that is not mean to be literally, but meant to add richness and color to literature
• type of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics
• the dictionary definition of a word
• the author's attitude toward the subject and the audience

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Simile or Metaphor:
My life is a dream.

• simile
• metaphor

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"To the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells..."

• metaphor
• simile
• repetition
• onomatopoeia

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A phrase that means something different than the literal meaning of the words

• Metaphor 
• Hyperbole
• Idiom 
• Allusion 

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This image depicts what figurative language device? 

• Imagery 
• Personification 
• Hyperbole 
• Alliteration 

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What does "slow as a snail" mean?

• it looks like a snail

• it's the shape of a snail

• it moves quickly

• it moves very slowly

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"Frost cracking/Beneath my steps, my breath/Before me" contains ______________ to ________________.

• Hyperbole, to show exaggerated emotions

• Simile, to compare the breathing with emotions

• Alliteration, to stress the cold

• Idiom, to repeat a commonly used expression.

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Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.

The night sky was a loom threaded with darkness.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

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