WorksheetsFigurative Language in The Book The Boy in The Striped Pajamas
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
"Everything felt cool as if she was in the middle of nowhere.”
Metaphor
Extended Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
The noise of a door slamming came from downstairs and
reverberated through the house loudly—like a gunshot—
that Bruno jumped and Maria let out a small scream
Metaphore
Simile
Similar
Metaphor
He felt as if he was about to cry again but stopped himself, not wanting to look like a baby in front of Maria.
Simile
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
When Bruno describes Lieutenant Kotler's hair on a Saturday: "his hair flopped down over his forehead in exhaustion."
Hyperbole
Irony
Oxymoron
Personification
As they [the Nazi soldiers] left they stood in a row together like toy soldiers
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Irony
They had no time to stop, not today, not when they had a hundred and one things to do
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
I might bleed to death.
Irony
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Metaphor
“ ‘I think the best thing to do would be to forget all about this and just go back home. We can chalk it up to experience,’ he added.”
Idiom
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
“The dolls had eyes that followed me around”
Alliteration
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
He lost his grip of the bottle somehow and it fell crashing, glug-glug-glugging its contents out directly onto the young man’s lap,”
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Metaphor
Assonance
[Pavel] stepped back towards the wall and held himself perfectly still...as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open,”
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Similar
A ball of anger exploded inside him and made him with that he had the courage to say exactly what he wanted to say...
simile
Metaphor
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
Father was proud of the fact that one of them had been sent by the Fury, but when Mother heard she said that Grandmother would turn in her grave if she knew it were there,
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Idiom
Phrase
“...Bruno, who wasn’t going to let the matter drop without an explanation,”
Hyperbole
Allusion
Idiom
Simile
“’The only spare tyre I have seen around here recently belongs to Sergeant Hoffshneider, and he carries it around his waist,’”
Personification
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
“...he lost his grip of the bottle somehow and it fell crashing, glug-glug-glugging its contents out directly onto the young man’s lap,”
simile
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
alliteration
What is meant by the personification: “’The only spare tyre I have seen around here recently belongs to Sergeant Hoffshneider, and he carries it around his waist,’”
He has a black tire that wears over his uniform.
He is the only one with a black rubber tire at all, that he carries with him.
He is rather fat and has extra weight around his waist/at his stomach.
What does this simile mean: “Lieutenant Kotler still strode around in his black boots as if there was no one in the whole world of any more importance than him,”
he liked wearing his black boots
he thought he was the only one around
he acted as if he was better than everyone else
What is the meaning of this hyperbole: “...he said in a quiet voice, so quiet that he may not even have said it at all,”
he said it softly
he said it so softly you could hardly hear
he said it in his normal voice
What is the meaning of this idiom: " Well, you’ve been
brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we’re all in the same boat. And it’s leaking,”
in the same situation and it's a bad one
in the same situation and it's a good one
in different, bad situations
in different, good situations
