Identifying Figurative Language in Passages

Identify the figurative language in this passage from Bud, Not Buddy:

"Another hornet buzzed into my ear, and it felt like someone had poured hot wax right down into my brain."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Identify the figurative language in the following passage from the book Esperanza Rising:

"Mama, my finger. An angry thorn stabbed me," said Esperanza. "Bad luck," said Mama, confirming the superstition, but she half-smiled.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

Identify the figurative language in the following passage from the The Hatchet:

"He raised himself and crawled out of the water, his legs on fire."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Identify the figurative language in the following passage from the book Fahrenheit 451:

"He says I’m a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Identify the figurative language in the following passage from the book Catcher in the Rye:

"The second I opened the closet door, Stradlater’s tennis racket -- in its wooden press and all -- fell right on my head. It made a big clunk and it hurt."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

Identify the figurative language in the following passage from the book Tuck Everlasting:

"Winnie realized that sometime during the night she had made up her mind: she would not run away today."

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Identify the figurative language used in the following passage from Number the Stars:

"We're playing Gone With the Wind. Melanie and Scarlett are going to a ball. You can be Bonnie. She's Scarlett's daughter."

• Allusion

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

An example of ______________ would be the fact that the word "cadaver" means dead body, and the character of Mrs. Cadaver in the book Walk Two Moons was the only survivor in a bus crash that killed Sal's mother.

• Personification

• Allusion

• Irony

• Metaphor

Identify the figurative language that is represented in the following passage from Number the Stars:

"She looked down, and saw that she had imprinted the Star of David into her palm."

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

• alliteration

Identify the figurative language in the following song lyrics from Blake Sheldon's song She's Got a Way With Words:

"She put the her in hurt.

She put the why in try.

Yeah she's got a way …

She's got a way with words."

• personification

• simile

• sarcasm

• metaphor