Analyze Figurative Language

How does the author create a tense mood in paragraph 9?

• By using personification to depict Louise's feelings as an intense, unmanageable force.

• By employing metaphor to compare Louise’s struggle to a battle she cannot win.

• By describing Louise’s physical sensations with similes that evoke a sense of calm and peace.

• By using hyperbole to exaggerate the intensity of Louise’s feelings of freedom.

In which sentence does the underlined word have a connotative meaning similar to the word bearing in the passage?

• The fact that he was ordered to stand trial has no impacting effect on whether he'll be found guilty.

• A car heading north is approaching the city center.

• The diplomat is carrying the weight of his nation's hopes with solemn dignity.

• She had a proud and distinguished posture.

“They were standing in a sunlit field, and the air about them was moving with the delicious fragrance that comes only on the rarest of spring days when the sun’s touch is gentle and the apple blossoms are just beginning to unfold.” (67)

• Peaceful

• Suspenseful

• scared

• Exciting

My homework is so hard my brain is going to explode.

• alliteration

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

The flames ate hungrily at the burning houses.

• idiom

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.

Uses LIKE or AS.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.

NO like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

The city was a jungle is an example of what?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

As straight as an arrow is an example of what?

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.

• The trees danced in the wind.

• I waited in line for 10 years!

• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge.