Crispin by Avi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Identify the type of figurative language.

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

• hyperbole

• personification

• allusion

• simile

Identify the type of figurative language.

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

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• hyperbole