The Crucible Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is present in this quote from *The Crucible*? “The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

What type of figurative language is used in this line from *The Crucible*? “Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”

• Simile

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

What type of figurative language is this?

“She brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks, the crowd will part like the sea for Israel.”

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

What figurative language is this? “The room was a furnace during the summer.”

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

Match the example with the correct figurative language:

• "Boom! Crash! The thunder echoed."

• Simile

• "Time is a thief."

• Hyperbole

• "I could sleep for a year."

• Metaphor

• "The stars danced in the sky."

• Personification

• "Her eyes were like stars."

• Onomatopoeia

What does Elizabeth mean when she says to John, “The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you”?

• God is the ultimate judge.

• John feels guilty and judges himself.

• John is afraid of being judged by others.

• Elizabeth believes John is judging her unfairly.

Match the figurative language term with its definition:  

• a. Extreme exaggeration

• Allusion

• e. A direct comparison between two unlike things

• Hyperbole

• b. A reference to a well-known event or text

• Simile

• d. Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• Metaphor

• c. Comparison using "like" or "as"

• Personification

"That book saved my life" is an example of...

• Offensive language

• Exemplar

• Personification

• Concept

• Simile

What type of figurative language is present in this quote from The Crucible? 'The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.'

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

What type of figurative language is used in this line from The Crucible? 'Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.'

• Simile

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron