
Figurative Language in Out of the Dust
Authored by Sarah Williams
English
6th Grade
CCSS covered

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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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.RL.5.4
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"...streaks of light swam and danced and wavered..."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"We just are, we just be, like rocks besides the road."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.7.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"...and the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"...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
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"...they were careful with her, a little gingerly, as if she were an egg."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.5
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
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