BETTER Owl Moon (Figurative Language & Sound Devices)

What type of figurative language is this statement: "The trees stood still as giant statues."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

What type of figurative language is the following statement: "A train whistle blew, long and low, like a sad, sad song..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

What type of figurative language is the following statement: "A farm dog answered the train."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

What type of figurative language is the following statement: "it was quiet as a dream."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

What type of sound device is found in the following line: "We walked on toward the woods."

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

"Our feet crunched over the crisp snow" contains two sound devices, one of them is the alliteration of the "c" sound - the other is an onomatopoeia -- which word is it?

• Feet

• Crunched

• Snow

What type of figurative language is the following statement: "...and my short, round shadow bumped after me."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

How could we change "I had been waiting to go owling with pa for a long, long time" to a hyperbole?

• I had waited a long time to go owling.

• I have waited until I was old enough to go owling.

• I waited forever to go owling.

"He stopped right where I was and waited..." contains what sound device?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

"The moon made his face into a silver mask" is what type of figurative language?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification