A Long Walk to Water: Figurative Language Quiz

The teacher droned on and on, like the endless buzz of the insects.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The sun was relentless.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Salva’s mouth felt as if it were full of cotton.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

The days became a blur.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Salva was so hungry that he felt as if he could eat a whole meal by himself.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

It was as if the heat and time were two evil villains working together.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

The stillness seemed to reach out and grab them.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Thwack! A sound like a whip.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

It was like drinking the very life from the earth itself.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

The wind whispered across the grass.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia