Figurative language My Moter Pieced Quilts

What type of figurative language is this?

"how the thread darted in and out/galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in"… (21-23)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

What type of figurative language is this?

"October ripened canvases/passed my hand across their cloth faces…"(6-13)

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

What type of figurative language is this?

"whether to shape a five-point star from the somber black silk you wore to grandmother’s funeral" (36-37)

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

What type of figurative language is this?

"you were the river current/carrying the roaring notes" (38-39)

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• irony

What type of figurative language is this?

"you were the caravan master at the reins/driving your thread needle artillery across the mosaic cloth bridges" (42-44)

• idiom

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is this?

"oh mother you plunged me sobbing and laughing/into our past" (46-47)

• alliteration

• irony

• hyperbole

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is this?

"stretched out they lay armed/ready/shouting/celebrating" (55-56)

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyberbole

What type of figurative language is this?

"knotted with love/the quilts sing on" (57-58)

• simile

• idiom

• personification

• metaphor

On line 43, the word "artillery" means

On line 53, the word "taut" means to pull