Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Figurative Language

"This is the nerve center of the whole operation"

"Willy Wonka is a magician with chocolate"

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

"whoof!"

"CLICK"

"Zing"

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

It had huge iron gates leading into it and SMOKE BELCHING from its chimneys.

• Personification

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Two Golden tickets found today, SCREAMED THE HEADLINES.

• PERSONIFICATION

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• HYPERBOLE

"He was hopping about among the saucepans and the machines like a child among his Christmas presents."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

"They were as shriveled as prunes, and as bony as skeletons."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

"How long could we allow this beast (Agustus) to gorge and guzzle, feed and feast?"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

"The children are disappearing like rabbits!"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

"Augustus was lapping up the chocolate like a dog"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

"Listen! You can hear the machines! They're all WHIRRING again

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration