Figurative Devices Practice KEY

Figurative Devices Practice

Word Bank

hyperbole / metaphor / simile / personification
Exaggeration / Comparison without like or as / Comparision with like or as / Human traits to an inanimate object or nonliving things
______/ "We were withered trees in the heart of the desert"
______/ "My soul had been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame."
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______/ "There are a thousand and one gates allowing entry into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate."
______/ "I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine."
______/ "'For God's sake, where is God?' and from within me, I heard a voice answer: Where He is? This is he - hanging from these gallows."
______/ "On April 5th, the wheel of history turned."
______/ "He sat up, bewildered, stunned, like an orphan...he had suddenly decided to take inventory of his universe, where he was and how and why he was there."
______/ "Night was falling rapidly."
______/ "Around me everything was dancing a dance of death. It made my head reel"
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______/ "the world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed"

Figurative Devices Practice KEY

Word Bank

hyperbole / metaphor / simile / personification
Exaggeration / Comparison without like or as / Comparison with like or as / Human traits to an inanimate object or nonliving thing
Metaphor
People=withered trees / "We were withered trees in the heart of the desert"
personification
flame devouring/invading / "My soul had been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame."
Hyperbole
Thousand gates=exaggeration
Metaphor
Orchard=mystical truth / "There are a thousand and one gates allowing entry into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate."
Simile
Elie=machine / "I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine."
Metaphor
Wheel=history / "On April 5th, the wheel of history turned."
Simile
Person=orphan / "He sat up, bewildered, stunned, like an orphan...he had suddenly decided to take inventory of his universe, where he was and how and why he was there."
hyperbole
night=exaggeration / "Night was falling rapidly."
Personification
Death dancing=human trait / "Around me everything was dancing a dance of death. It made my head reel"
Metaphor
World=cattle wagon
Hyperbole
Hermetically sealed / "the world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed"