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The Treasure of Lemon Brown: Figurative Language
DIRECTIONS: Write the literary term that matches the example from the story. A box of choices has been provided for you. If you need help, the definitions of these literary terms are on pages R11 - R18 at the back of your textbook.
A. allusion
B. dialect
C. flashback
D. hyperbole
E. idiom
F. imagery
G. metaphor
H. personification
I. simile
p. 1751. / The dark sky, filled with angry, swirling clouds
2. / filled with angry, swirling clouds
3. / lecturing endlessly about his poor efforts in math
p. 176
4. / Now, you just get into your room and hit those books.”
5. / That had been two nights before…
6. / His father’s words, like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem, still rumbled softly in his ears.
7. / Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars.
p. 178
8. / I got a razor here sharp enough to cut a week into nine days!
9. / The voice was high and brittle, like dry twigs being broken…
10. / His black, heavily wrinkled face was surrounded by a halo of crinkly white hair…
11. / “Ain’t you got no home?”
p. 179
12. / “You ain’t one of them bad boys looking for my treasure, is you?”
13. / “Don’t worry none about what I got.”
14. / “They used to say I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at a funeral, the dead would commence to rocking with the beat.”
15. / “You mean you ain’t never heard of Sweet Lemon Brown?”
16. / “Hard times always after a poor man. One day I got tired, sat down to rest a spell and felt a tap at my shoulder. Hard times caught up with me.”
17. / “Rain don’t bother you young folks none.”
18. / “You don’t give up the blues; they give you up…”
p. 180
19. / “We heard you talking about your treasure.” The voice was slurred. “We just want to see it, that’s all...”
p. 181
20. / “Ain’t nobody in that room,” a voice said. “You think he gone or something?”
21. / “You know they found that shopping bag lady with that money in her bags.”
22. / The beam from the flashlight danced crazily along the peeling wallpaper.
23. / He was an eerie sight, a bundle of rags standing at the top of the stairs, his shadow on the wall looming over him.
p. 182
24. / “When you get as old as me all you say when something hurts is, ‘Howdy, Mr. Pain, sees you back again.’ Then when Mr. Pain see he can’t worry you none, he go on mess with somebody else.”
p. 183
25. / “There it be,” he said, nodding his head. “There it be.”
p. 184
26. / …the wrinkles about his eyes suggesting a smile.