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WorksheetsB.O.Y. Day 2 Diagnostic
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 21mins
“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
allusion
“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull” ― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
hyperbole
personification
metaphor
allusion
”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa
onomatopoeia
simile
metaphor
alliteration
“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People
hyperbole
allusion
personification
idiom
“It's a piece of cake.”
hyperbole
idiom
allusion
simile
“I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.” - Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi
hyperbole
personification
allusion
idiom
”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
allusion
“Conscience is a man’s compass.” - Vincent Van Gogh
simile
alliteration
metaphor
idiom
“ It’s raining cats and dogs.”
personification
idiom
alliteration
allusion
“Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog.” - Truman Capote, "Mojave"
metaphor
personification
simile
alliteration
This coffee shop is an ice box!
simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
personification
I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
The sky misses the sun at night
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Repetition
I've told you a million times to clean your room!
Alliteration
Personification
metaphor
Hyperbole
The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.
hyperbole
Alliteration
Personification
Repetition
I can smell pizza from a mile away.
metaphor
simile
Hyperbole
onomatopoeia
The traffic noises argued long into the night and finally Carl went to sleep.
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
metaphor
Personification
which one is “Simile”?
Her head was spinning from all the new information.
The crowd cheered when the champion hit the challenger with a chair.
The bird’s chirp filled the empty night air.
The fluffy pillows that mom bought were as soft as a cloud.
Which one is “ Alliteration “?
I told you million times not to touch that!
He has a heart of stone.
Watching that movie was like watching grass grow.
Your friends will flip-flop fast when facing trouble.
Which one has the same type of figurative language ?
The radio suddenly stopped singing and stared at me.
The classroom was zoo.
Water plops into the pond.
Becky's beagle barked and bayed, becoming bother some for Billy.
“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”
personification
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.”
personification
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
“I hear the crunch of someone walking.”
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
It is so hot outside. I bet it is a million degrees!
hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
I plant purple petunias in the park.
hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
alliteration
Allusion
Ex. Salinas River, 1930s; "A few miles south of Soledad."
Ex. "You're like a kid Lennie."
Ex. "It wasn't no good to pet."
Ex. "He stepped short, quick steps, of a fat legged man."
Ex. "Crooks scowled, but Lennie's disarming smile defeated him. Come on in and set a while."
Ex. "He stepped short, quick steps, of a fat legged man."
Ex. Crooks lets Lennie in his room.
Ex. "Sure, said Crooks. And a manure pile under the window. Sure, it's swell."
Ex. When Lennie walks in Crooks's room. (Lennie does not know that he is unwanted in there.)
Ex. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."
Ex. George tells Lennie in the opening chapter that if he gets into trouble to go back and hide in the brush by the river.
Ex. George and Lennie's dream represents their freedom and wealth.
Ex. "the afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls"
Ex. Lennie and George because they are the main people in the story.
Ex. Curley/Curley's wife
Ex. Lennie vs. Curley; Lennie vs. George; Candy vs. himself; Ranch men vs. society
