WorksheetsThe Great Gatsby - Figurative Language
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
What figurative language is used in the phrase "The cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses."?
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is used in the phrase "Men and girls came and went like moths"?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is used in the phrase '[There were] enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.'?
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is used in the phrase "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life"?
Paradox
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is represented by the phrase "He's a regular Belasco"?
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'I'm paralyzed with happiness.'
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath.'
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'Wreck of a Ford crouched in a dim corner.'
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.'
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'A grey old man who [absurdly so looked like] John D. Rockefeller.'
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Allusion
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'The cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.'
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'When she moved there was an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down her arms.'
Metaphor
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'Men and girls came and went like moths.'
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: '[There were] enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.'
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.'
Metaphor
Simile
Paradox
Personification
Identify the figurative language used in the sentence: 'He's a regular Belasco.'
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Allusion
Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'The whole clan [...] flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near.'
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'I didn’t want you to think I was just some nobody.'
Simile
Metaphor
Paradox
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'I heard the familiar ‘jug-jug-spat!’ of a cycle.'
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets.'
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'His shirts piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.'
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Personification
D) Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: '[Daisy’s] voice was a deathless song.'
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Personification
D) Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'The pebbles on the drive crunched under Tom’s feet.'
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language used in the following sentence: 'At [Gatsby’s] lips’ touch [Daisy] blossomed for him like a flower.'
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language used in the quote: "The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty."
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
Identify the figurative language used in the quote: "A fog horn was groaning incessantly on the sound."
personification
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
Identify the figurative language used in the quote: "At any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders."
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
Identify the figurative language used in the quote: "All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues."
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "His [Gatsby’s] career as Trimalchio was over."
Simile
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Allusion
Paradox
Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "Their footsteps had clicked together."
Paradox
Simile
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "Small gray clouds took on fantastic shapes and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind."
Simile
Alliteration
Personification
Oxymoron
Paradox
Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues."
Personification
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Simile
Paradox
Identify the figurative language in the sentence: "She was dressed to play golf and I remember thinking she looked like a good illustration."
Paradox
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Simile
Personification
