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Figurative Language in The Christmas Carol

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the type of figurative language:

The chain was long and wound about him like a tail.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Allusion

c)

Simile

2.

Identify the type of figurative language:

The setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

3.

Identify the type of figurative language:

The elder man struck up a study song that was like a gale in itself.

a)

Allusion

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

4.

Identify the type of figurative language:

A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December

a)

Metaphor

b)

Idiom

c)

Personification

5.

Identify the type of figurative language:

If he wanted to keep them, the wicked old screw, why didn't he?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

6.

Identify the type of figurative language:

the chimes of the clock struck the fourth hour...

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Idiom

7.

Identify the type of figurative language:

The spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow of his bones.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Idiom

c)

Metaphor

8.

Identify the type of figurative language:

Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding ...

a)

Metaphor

b)

Idiom

c)

Hyperbole

9.

Identify the type of figurative language:

The knife was eaten up with rust.

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Idiom

10.

Identify the type of figurative language:

If good Saint Dunston had but nipped the Evil Spirits nose with a touch ...

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Idiom

c)

Allusion

11.

Identify the type of figurative language:

The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

a)

Personification

b)

Allusion

c)

Metaphor

12.

Identify the type of figurative language:

They shone in every part of the dance like moons

a)

Idiom

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

13.

Identify the type of figurative language:

...that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode?

a)

Analogy

b)

Allusion

c)

Hyperbole

14.

Identify the type of figurative language:

The spectre wrung his shadowy hands.

a)

Allusion

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

15.

Identify the type of figurative language:

The men were pouring out their hearts to Fezziwig.

a)

Idiom

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

16.

Identify the type of figurative language:

...his mind flew back again, like a strong spring released...

a)

Idiom

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

17.

Identify the type of figurative language:

Plenty's horn was atop his head.

a)

Idiom

b)

Allusion

c)

Simile

18.

Identify the type of figurative language:

He might hear the pudding singing in the copper.

a)

Allusion

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

19.

In the following metaphor/simile, what is being compared?

"the pudding, like a speckled cannonball"

________ = ________

(a)  

20.

In the following metaphor/simile, what is being compared?

Scrooge lifted up his ideas and beheld a Phantom...coming like a mist...

________ = ________

(a)