WorksheetsFigurative Language in The Christmas Carol
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Identify the type of figurative language:
The chain was long and wound about him like a tail.
Metaphor
Allusion
Simile
Identify the type of figurative language:
The setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant
Alliteration
Personification
Simile
Identify the type of figurative language:
The elder man struck up a study song that was like a gale in itself.
Allusion
Personification
Simile
Identify the type of figurative language:
A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December
Metaphor
Idiom
Personification
Identify the type of figurative language:
If he wanted to keep them, the wicked old screw, why didn't he?
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
Identify the type of figurative language:
the chimes of the clock struck the fourth hour...
Metaphor
Personification
Idiom
Identify the type of figurative language:
The spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow of his bones.
Hyperbole
Idiom
Metaphor
Identify the type of figurative language:
Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding ...
Metaphor
Idiom
Hyperbole
Identify the type of figurative language:
The knife was eaten up with rust.
Personification
Metaphor
Idiom
Identify the type of figurative language:
If good Saint Dunston had but nipped the Evil Spirits nose with a touch ...
Hyperbole
Idiom
Allusion
Identify the type of figurative language:
The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
Personification
Allusion
Metaphor
Identify the type of figurative language:
They shone in every part of the dance like moons
Idiom
Personification
Simile
Identify the type of figurative language:
...that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode?
Analogy
Allusion
Hyperbole
Identify the type of figurative language:
The spectre wrung his shadowy hands.
Allusion
Personification
Metaphor
Identify the type of figurative language:
The men were pouring out their hearts to Fezziwig.
Idiom
Personification
Metaphor
Identify the type of figurative language:
...his mind flew back again, like a strong spring released...
Idiom
Personification
Simile
Identify the type of figurative language:
Plenty's horn was atop his head.
Idiom
Allusion
Simile
Identify the type of figurative language:
He might hear the pudding singing in the copper.
Allusion
Personification
Metaphor
In the following metaphor/simile, what is being compared?
"the pudding, like a speckled cannonball"
________ = ________
(a)
In the following metaphor/simile, what is being compared?
Scrooge lifted up his ideas and beheld a Phantom...coming like a mist...
________ = ________
(a)
