The Great Gatsby - Figurative Language

What figurative language is used in the phrase "The cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses."?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What type of figurative language is used in the phrase "Men and girls came and went like moths"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What type of figurative language is used in the phrase '[There were] enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.'?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What type of figurative language is used in the phrase "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life"?

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

What type of figurative language is represented by the phrase "He's a regular Belasco"?

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'I'm paralyzed with happiness.'

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath.'

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'Wreck of a Ford crouched in a dim corner.'

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.'

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'A grey old man who [absurdly so looked like] John D. Rockefeller.'

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Allusion