Hatchet Figurative Language

The plane committed now to landing, to crashing, fell into the wide place like a stone, and Brian eased back on the wheel and braced himself for the crash.

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition

So he touched the pilot with the tips of his fingers, touched him on the chest and could feel nothing, no heartbeat, no rise and fall of breathing. Which meant that the pilot was almost certainly dead

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition

All so still looking, so stopped, the pond and the moose and the trees, as he slid over them now only three or four hundred feet off the ground – all like a picture.

 

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Repetition

Personification is

• An extreme exaggeration.

• a comparison of two unlike object using like or as.

• a word that is equal to a sound effect.

• when a non-human object is given human .characteristics

What is this an example of:
"The pilot's words were a hiss, barely audible." (p.10)

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

What is this an example of:
"And now a jolt took him like a hammerblow, so forcefully..." (p. 10)

• Repetition

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What is this an example of:
"He was stopped. Inside he was stopped.  He could not think past what he saw, what he felt.  All was stopped.  The very core of him, the very center of Brian Robeson was stopped and stricken with a white-flash of horror, a terror so intense that his breathing, his thinking, and nearly his heart had stopped.
Stopped." (p.12)

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

What is this an example of:
"He was alone.
In the roaring plane with no pilot he was alone.
Alone." (p.12)

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Simile

What is this an example of:
"For a second all he heard was the whusssh of the empty air waves." (p.19)

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is this an example of:
"He felt like a prisoner, kept in a small cell that was hurtling through the sky..." (p.21)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Repetition