Figurative Language in "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"

What type of figurative language is included in the following quote from paragraph 2: "The children, small seeds, might at any

instant be sown to all the Martian climes"

(Bradbury 127).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

What type of figurative language is included in the following quote from paragraph 9: "They saw the old cities ... lying like children’s delicate bones among the blowing lakes of

grass"

(Bradbury 128).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

What type of figurative language is included in the following quote from paragraph 41: "This was the moment Mars had waited for. Now it would eat them"

(Bradbury 130).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

What type of figurative language is included in the following quote from paragraph 15: "'I feel like a salt crystal...'"

(Bradbury 128).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is included in the following quote from paragraph 21: "A river of wind submerged the house"

(Bradbury 128).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is included in the following quote from paragraph 40: "...the rockets had spun a silver web across space..."

(Bradbury 129).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

What type of figurative language is included in the following quote from paragraph 251: "Rubber tires...hung suspended like stopped clock pendulums"

(Bradbury 139).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What type of figurative language is included in the following quote from paragraph 14: "[The fear] lay with Mr. Bittering

and Mrs. Bittering, a third unbidden partner at

every midnight talk"

(Bradbury 128).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile