Crispin Figurative Language

Identify the type of figurative language.

“Night was a mask for outlaws, hungry wolves, the Devil and his minions” (Avi 7).

• smile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the type of figurative language.

“But no sooner did I than I became ensnared in brambles that caught me in their thorny grasp”(Avi 10).

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the type of figurative language.

“Time was the great millstone, which ground us to dust like kernelled wheat” (Avi 15).

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the type of figurative language.

“But once the day was truly over, when the curfew bell had rung and all lay still as stone, I crawled from my hiding place” (Avi 30).

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the type of figurative language.

“The things the priest has said made my heart feel like a city under siege” (Avi 42).

• alliteration

• allusion

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the type of figurative language.

“It was rather like a new garment that replaces an old: desired but not yet comfortable” (Avi 43).

• personification

• imagery

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the type of figurative language.

“Smoke thickened the air, making the herbs that hung from the rafters look like dangling carcasses” ( Avi 46).

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Identify the type of figurative language.

“Thick and clammy air embraced me like the fingers of some loathsome toad” (Avi 62-63).

• personification

• imagery

• allusion

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the type of figurative language.

“Solid shapes were soft as rotten hay”(Avi 63).

• hyperbole

• personification

• allusion

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Identify the type of figurative language.

“I walked as solitary as Adam before the creation of Eve” (Avi 63).

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3