Harris and Me figurative language practice – Flashcards
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What type of figurative language compares two things using 'like' or 'as'?
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simile
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What type of figurative language compares two things WITHOUT using 'like' or 'as'?
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metaphor
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Name the type of figurative language that is an 'extreme exaggeration.'
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hyperbole
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Name the figurative language that assigns human characteristics to non human things.
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personification
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Which term uses words in a special way different than their literal meaning?
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idiom
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simile or metaphor? "Louie was a machine completely devoted to feeding itself" (17)
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simile or metaphor? "...the trees closed in closer and thicker until they were a wall on either side and the road and the car were enveloped in a curtain of green darkness..."(3)
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simile or metaphor? "Attached to the side of the barn were wooden pigpens which seemed to be full of living boulders - enormous pigs" (26)
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simile or metaphor? "Harris moved up the ladder like a monkey and I followed" (63)
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personification or hyperbole? "Everywhere there seemed to be odd bits of junk and old machinery - mechanical arms that stuck up in the air" (26)
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personification or hyperbole? "Bob moved first into a jarring trot and then into a lolloping canter that had almost no real speed but must have triggered seismographs all over North America" (103).
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personification or hyperbole? "...and there was a tired-looking caving in truck with the Ford emblem on the radiator grill" (26)
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personification
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personification or hyperbole? "It [Coleman lantern] sighed and burbled away throwing a flat white glare on the table" (14).
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personification
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personification or hyperbole "...Bill kicked with a force just below nuclear" (99)
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What type of figurative language? "...the bike approached something like terminal velocity (speed)" (145)
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"You watch your tongue" (8)
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idiom
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"...and I was going to ask Harris what kept them in when he stopped dead" (27).
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idiom
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"Cough, spit. It's fun - want to do it?" (31)
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onomatopoeia
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"I smelled the rat" (32)
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idiom
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"He don't come when there's big folks around - he's yellow clear through. Just a ...coward" (34)
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"Smack." Glennis...turned and whacked Harris" (34)
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onomatopoeia
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"The sharpened point plunked into the center of the fur...there was a screech like somebody drawing a million fingernails across blackboards" (76).
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"Milking lasted perhaps two hours but seemed a lifetime" (33)
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"They weren't just big - they were almost prehistoric" (45)
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"They were...like two hair covered dinosaurs" (45)
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"The ground seemed miles away" (47).
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"...the mower moved and sharp triangular blades snick-snicked back and forth"(51)
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onomatopoeia
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"...the mower moved back and forth...and cut the hay as neat as scissors" (51).
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simile
