Halloween Figurative Language

Jason was a hungry goblin wolfing down a handful of miniature candy bars.

The figure of speech in this sentence is...

• a simile

• a metaphor

• a hyperbole

• an idiom

Tattered curtains hanging in the windows waved to groups of trick-or-treaters who scurried by.

What figure of speech is present in this sentence?

• a simile

• a metaphor

• personification

• a hyperbole

Shadows from the tree's limbs reached out like an octopus and grabbed at the sidewalk.

The simile in this sentence compares

• shadows to octopus arms

• a tree to a shadow

• a tree to an octopus

• an octopus to a sidewalk

Dad is a library of information about all the natural phenomena behind seasonal changes.

The metaphor in the above sentence indicates that Dad

• Talks about the weather a lot

• knows a lot about the weather

• has a job that involves the weather

• is a teacher

Lonnie howled like a coyote when her brother scored the winning touchdown.

What two things are compared in this sentence’s simile?

• the touchdown and Lonnie’s brother

• a score and a coyote

• the sound that Lonnie made to a coyote’s howl

• Lonnie’s excitement to winning.

“October’s poplars (trees) are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” Nova Bair, American poet and musician

What is the figure of speech in this sentence?

• a simile

• a metaphor

• personification

• a hyperbole

A row of flickering jack-o-lanterns grinned at us menacingly as we made our way to the front door.

The personification in this sentence gives a human characteristic to

• a door

• trick-or-treaters

• jack-o-lanterns

• a candle

The moon was a huge, orange eye looking down from

the night sky.

Which of the following changes the metaphor in this sentence to a simile?

• The moon was like a huge orange eye looking down from the night sky.

• The moon was a huge orange eye in the night sky.

• The moon looked down from the night sky.

• The moon was huge and orange.

His steely stare was as cold as an Arctic wind.

The simile in this sentence compares

• steely to a stare,

• a stare to an Arctic wind,

• cold to the Arctic,

• cold to a wind.

A twig snapped underfoot, and I jumped like a jack-in-the-box.

The above simile suggests that the person jumped

• straight up

• forward

• backwards

• to one side