figurative language practice
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Figurative Language Practice. Read the following Quotes and Identify what type of Figurative Language is being used. 1. “Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them creating wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEPRACTICE
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R E A D T H E F O L L O W I N G Q U O T E S A N D I D E N T I F Y W H AT T Y P E O F F I G U R AT I V E
L A N G UA G E I S B E I N G U S E D
1. “Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through
them creating wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground”
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PERSONIFICATION
wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground
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2. “outrageous plainness”
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OXYMORON
Outrageous plainness
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3. “Like sometimes if I concentrate very hard I can understand the wind talking with the trees”
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PERSONIFICATION
the wind talking with the trees
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4. “and the door swung slowly outward, creaking on rusty hinges. Up in one of the elms an old black crow gave its raucous cry, and a woodpecker went into a wild rat-a-tat-tat. Large gray rat scuttled around the corner of the house and Meg let out a stifled shriek.”
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ONOMATAPOEIA
rat-a-tat-tat
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5. “Silence fell between them as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and now seemed to rest upon
them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.”
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SIMILE
as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps
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6. “clear as mud”
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OXYMORON AND SIMILE
“clear as mud”
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7. “it was as though the dark shadow had somehow reached out with its dark power and touched them so that they
were incapable of speech.”
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PERSONIFICATION
the dark shadow had somehow reached out with its dark power and
touched them
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8. “It reminded Meg of the Cheshire Cat.”
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ALLUSION
Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland)
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9. “kind of darkness … that wanted to eat her…”
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PERSONIFICATION
Darkness wanted to eat her
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10. “Was it his words that were ice , or her ears?”
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METAPHOR
Words were ice
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11. “The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal; the lights glowed with
steady radiance …”
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SIMILE
Purred like a great sleepy animal
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12. “The curtains, red, with a blue and green geometrical pattern, were
drawn and seemed to reflect their cheerfulness throughout the room.”
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PERSONIFICATION
curtains, red, with a blue and green geometrical pattern, were drawn and seemed to reflect their cheerfulness
throughout the room
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13. “ One white faced man in a dark suit looked directly at the children, said, “Oh
dear, I shall be late,” and flickered into the building.
“He’s like the white rabbit,” Meg giggled nervously.
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ALLUSION AND SIMILE
He’s like the white rabbit,” Meg giggled nervously
(Alice in Wonderland)
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2 POSSIBLE ANSWERS
14. “She sighed and stretched … her body was bathed in waves of warmth.”
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ALLITERATION AND METAPHOR
She sighed and stretched
waves of warmth