Copy of The Lorax- Context Clues + Figurative Language

Type of figurative language used in the following sentence: 

"From the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows?" 

• Simile 

• Metaphor 

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Read the sentence below from the story and choose the best meaning for the underlined nonsense word.

"You won't see the Once-ler. Don't knock at his door. He stays in his Lerkim on top of his store."

• A place to buy things

• A secret hiding place

• A club house

• A fancy hotel room

"Grunts" is an example of which type of figurative language? 

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia 

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Read the sentence below from the story and choose the best meaning for the underlined nonsense word. 

"Down slurps the Whisper-ma-Phone to your ear and the old Once-ler's whispers are not very clear, since they have to come down through a snergelly hose."

• Clean and new

• Old and crooked

• Shiny and fancy

• Skinny and straight

"The Truffula Trees" are which type of figurative language? 

• Personification

• Simile 

• Hyperbole 

• Alliteration

"ga-Zump" is which type of figurative language?

• Onomatopoeia 

• Personification

• Allusion

• Metaphor

"We were all knitting Thneeds, just as busy as bees..." 

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile 

• Allusion

Read the sentence below from the story and choose the best meaning for the underlined nonsense word. 

"My poor Bar-ba-loots are getting the crummies because they have gas and no food in their tummies."

• Stomach ache

• Cookie crumbs

• Runny nose

• Cough

Read the sentence below from the story and choose the best meaning for the underlined nonsense word. 

"He sneezed and he suffled. He snargled. He sniffed."

• Coughed

• Yelled

• Sang

• Slept

Read the sentence below from the story and choose the best meaning for the underlined nonsense word. 

"Once-ler, you're making such smogulous smoke!"

• thick and smelly

• appetizing

• clear and harmless

• colorful and pretty