Figurative Language in Out of the Dust

What TWO terms are being used in the following line (Pick 2):

"...my father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child"

• idiom

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"...streaks of light swam and danced and wavered..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"We just are, we just be, like rocks besides the road."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

"...and the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"...Winnie tipped the water onto the cracked earth at the gate. It sucked it in immediately..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"...they were careful with her, a little gingerly, as if she were an egg."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"Just go out, like the flame of a candle..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

"Everything is a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Read this quote from Chapter Eight and analyze it for Figurative Language. "The Sports Family was next, the boys carrying football pads and helmets, their mother teetering on high heels. Then there was a flurry of cars streaming from every driveway onto the still-sparkling new streets." What TWO types of Figurative Language are used in the quote?

• Simile and Metaphor

• Metaphor and Alliteration

• Alliteration and Onomatopoeia

• Onomatopoeia and Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3