Hatchet Figurative Language

giving characteristics of a person to an animal or object

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

• simile

• oxymoron

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3