Hatchet Figurative Language

giving characteristics of a person to an animal or object

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

The drone and the sea of green trees that lay before the plane's nose and flowed to the horizon, spread with lakes, swamps, and wandering streams and rivers.

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

The pilot seemed more a machine than a man, an extension of the plane.

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Brian went back to looking out the window at the ocean of trees and lakes.

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

... and now a jolt took him like a hammerblow.  This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

"Here the trees were not all the way down but twisted and snapped off halfway up from the ground, so their tops were all down and rotted and gone, leaving the snags poking into the sky like broken teeth." (p. 68) What kind of figurative language is being used? (a)   ​

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

What is this an example of:
"The drone and the sea of green trees that lay before the plane's nose..." (p.2)

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

As the plane clawed for altitude... is an example of what type of figurative language?

• simile

• oxymoron

• personification

• onomatopoeia

What is this an example of:
"... all the instruments in his face as the plan clawed for altitude..." (p.2)

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

• Personification

... and now a jolt took him like a hammerblow.  This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• personification