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LATEST GREATEST FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
NAME: ________________
INSTRUCTOR: SABRINA FOX
_____/ 20 possible
Instructions: Write Write the name of the BEST figure of speech in the blank for each of the following examples. If there is no figure of speech present in the example, write blank.
"NOTHING" ,
in the blank. Provide ONLY ONE answer per
1. _________________ 2. 3. 4.
He sips the tedium of his days like tepid tea, and fills his emptiness with words. Autumn morning wind and the wild geese calling -- a _________________ knife edge in the sky. The girls blossomed forth in their new dresses and _________________ bonnets. They parted more swiftly and savagely than gulls. _________________
5. _________________
Time is a kindly father tickling his loving child into giggling senselessness before carrying him off to bed.
6. _________________
Wayne Gretzky knows a thing or two about hockey.
7. _________________
They live alone, together in a worn out old shack.
8. _________________
The corner garage is now closed down; only a lonely old '42 sits in the abandoned parking lot.
9. _________________
My love poem is a lump in my throat, a homesickness.
10. _________________
A tree is an immovable critic twitching his skin.
11. _________________
No moon. My boots crunch on the iced over path. The woods are still. I have nowhere to go.
12. _________________
Not so much as a hiss or a murmur came through his canine mouth.
13. _________________
She brushed away tears that had not yet fallen.
14. _________________
"Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge,
15. _________________
Oh world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
16. _________________
Marlisse really likes Morgan, and he really liked her too.
17. _________________
Oh,the cinnamon buns were huge roles , reminiscent of the twisted
buns on
the sides of Princess Leia's head.
18. _________________
We danced for years and then she kissed me me and all the planets in the universe aligned themselves.
19. _________________
Lily ladled little Letty's lentil soup into her bowl.
20. _________________
He snatched the thunderbolt from heaven and presented it to his love.
