Esperanza Rising Chapters 7-9 Figurative Language Quizs

She felt the blood drain from her face.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

A group of girls were crowded next to the cardboard box, cooing and cradling them.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

As they walked to the bus stop, Isabel recited a list of concerns to Esperanza, sounding exactly as Josefina and Mama had sounded earlier that morning.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

After it [the truck] passes, the sharp smell told her they were onions, the dry outer skins being shredded by the wind.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Marta and some of her friends stood in the bed of a truck that was parked nearby, each of them holding up one of the tiny kittens. ‘This is what we are!’ she yelled. ‘Small, meek animals.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

So many Mexicans have the revolution still in their blood.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Esperanza felt anger crawling up her throat.

What literary device is being used in this sentence?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

It [the broomstick] swung wildly.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The wadded pile by the door grew.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Row upon row of white wooden cabins formed long lines, connected like bunk houses.

• Metaphor

• Simile and Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole