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Directions: Use the word bank and definition of each vocabulary word to identify the figurative language used.
WORD BANK:
idiom: an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way)
Simile: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses)
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)
Personification: attribution of personal qualities
especially : representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form
Foreshadowing: an indication of what is to come
Oxymoron: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness)
1) The heavens were torn asunder by vivid lightning—
2) Horses sniff the air suspiciously—
3) There was a fierce sigh of the storm—
4) The storm bore on its icy wings—
5) ‘the drift of’
6) His imagination got hold of him—
7) ‘my blood rose’
8) The ground shook as though a thousand horses thundered across—
9) A shroud of snow—
10) Maitre d’ warns the driver to be back by nightfall—
11) Silver thing as big as a turnip—
12) The deepening twilight forced itself upon me—
13) The earth around me was a glistening white carpet—
14) The cold seemed to grip me by the heart—
15) ‘The dead travel fast’—
16) The flood of moonlight—
17) Dark clouds drifted across the sky—
18) The tomb was as white as the snow around it—
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