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MetaphorSet 8

1Which figurative language is this an example of: When Sally looked outside she saw a blanket of snow.

2In line 86, the word framed is used figuratively todescribe:

3A metaphor is a type of:

4In Oodgeroo Noonuccal's A Song of Hope, the "new day" metaphor envisages

5Select the best option.The new girl in our class is an epitome of beauty. The above is a direct comparison, therefore, it is a / an ......

6What is the meaning of the metaphor "You light up my life!"

7A comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as. Example: Joe is a ferocious lion on the playing field.

8In "The cafeteria was a zoo during the first lunch shift," what is the function of the metaphor?

9The city was a jungle.

10Which literary device is used in the sentence: "The homework pile was a mountain sitting on his desk" ?

11Which of the following body parts is called the 'store house of knowledge'?

12The Conceptual Metaphor Theory was developed by:

13In "I Heard a Fly Buzz ..... " when the speaker says the "windows failed," what might she most likely mean?

14Which literary device is used in the phrase: "Power hardened her once-gentle heart" ?

15With out taking anyone's help, srila prabhupadh in one purport of bhagvadgita compared ..... to a blazing forest fire

16Which sentence uses 'hardest' in a metaphorical sense?

17Sanjeevan always goes to the library because he is a bookworm.

18The word "explosion" is used figuratively to mean .....

19Identify the figure of speech in the following statement.Chris was a limb in the group during the disco party.

20What is the figure of speech used in the following sentences?Time is a gift that we need to treasure each moment.

21What is the literary term for talking about something as if it were something else? Example: He is a monster.

22Identify an example of figurative language in the text.

23What figurative language is used in this sentence?The snow is a white blanket.

24Analyze the sentence: "The storm devoured the coastline." What is the impact of this word choice?

25What type of figurative language?"He's a shooting star flying fast."

26What literary device is being used here:"All the world's a stage."

27Identify the rhetorical device used by the phrase "A company's most valuable asset."

28Which literary device is used in the following line? "Her eyes were shining stars"

29Figurative expression which compares two different things in a figurative sense. "Like" and "as" are not used (A is B.).

30Which literary device is used in the phrase "victims to the heart's invisible furies"?

31'The government's decision to intervene' is an example of:

32Identify the metaphor in the following sentence: 'The classroom was a zoo.'

33Uncle Otis is a Scrooge about sharing his stash of chocolate covered cherries.According to the metaphor above, Uncle Otis

34In the book, Hatchet, Brian describes the mosquitoes and black flies as "vampires." What literary device is this?

35"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."What does the analogy in this quote imply?

36In "The American Crisis, Number 1", when Paine compares the colonies' relationship with Britain to the chains of slavery, what emotion does he hope to persuade his readers to feel?

37My mom was a tiger when my dad was caught drank last night.

38LITERARY ELEMENTS / TECHNIQUES:Comparing two things by using one kind of object or using in place of another to suggest the likeness between them. (NOT using like or as.)

39You are the sunshine in my day.

40"Your Midas touch on the Chevy door / November flush and your flannel cure"

41The word 'Metaphor' means:

42Which literary device is used to create a special effect or feeling by making some type of interesting or creative comparison?

43A metaphor is a figure of speech that .....

44This football team is a sinking ship.

45A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things saying one thing is another. EXAMPLE: "My nephew is a monkey! He climbs on everything."

46Which of the following describes how the nursery is supposed to work?

47Nothing Gold Can StayNature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. What is Frost referring to in the phrase "Nature's first green" ?

48'Time is a thief' is an example of which rhetorical device?

49The "pall" drawn over our dark spirits suggests a/an:

50A student reads: 'He is a rock in times of trouble.' What type of figurative language is this?

51What type of figurative language is being used in this sentence?As I stood atop the mighty skyscraper, the cars were toys in a miniature city below me.

52What food goes on and on without a beginning, middle, or an end?

53"I'ma rain, I'ma rain on this bitter love / Tell the sweet I'm new"

54What is the place called Expectations described as by the Whether Man?

55My brother is a night owl.

56TOPIC: FIGURATIVE SPEECHWhat do you think the meaning of this metaphor,"She is a walking dictionary" is?

57Her voice was velvet, smooth and soft. What literary device is used in this sentence?

58Choose the Metaphor (No "like" or "as")

59Which sentence below is a metaphor?

60"Losing him was blue ..... / Missing him was dark gray, all alone"

61A word or phrase used to compare 2 unlike objects, ideas, thoughts or feelings. (Does NOT use the words "like" or "as"). Ex:All the world is a stage!