The Most Dangerous Game Figurative Language Set – Flashcards
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"The place has a reputation-a bad one."
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Foreshadowing
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"The sea was a flat as a plate glass window."
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Simile
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"The night would be my eyelids-"
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Metaphor
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"The lights of the yacht became faint and ever vanishing fireflies."
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Metaphor
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"All he knew was that he was safe from his enemy, the sea."
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Metaphor
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"He... tumbled headlong into the deepest sleep of his life."
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Hyperbole
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"...the muttering and growling of the sea..."
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Personification
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"...where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows."
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Personification
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"The door opened then, opened as suddenly as if it were on a spring..."
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Simile
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"His thick eyebrows and pointed military moustache were as black as the night."
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Simile
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"Yes, he was a monster."
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Metaphor
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"My whole life has been one prolonged hunt."
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Metaphor
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"...giant rocks with razor edges crouch..."
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Personification
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"We try to be civilized here."
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Verbal Irony
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"An apprehensive night crawled by like a wounded snake."
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Personification
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"Rainsford's impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther..."
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Simile
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"The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse."
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Metaphor
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"...the muck suck viciously at his foot..."
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Personification
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"He lived a year in a minute."
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Hyperbole
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"I am still a beast at bay."
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