Question

A. Fill in the blank in each example with the correct figurative language from the box below.

metaphor metonymy personification
Irony
simile
symbol
1. My mother was mad as a bull when she found out what I had done.
"Gee! What a wonderful tratfic jam!"
2. The school is working hard to finish the repairs before August
3. I guess my cellphone crawled out of my bag.
4. "am the night! I'm a high school student during finals."
5. Laura usually wore light jewelry to work, but today she had two heavy bangles, one
on each wrist. As the day went on, it felt like the accessories were so heavy that she
didn't leave her desk all day,
6. My face was red as a tomato; it was so embarrassing.
7. Rafael climbed up the tree to get the kite, but then he got stuck himself.

Answer 1

1. simile - "mad as a bull" is a simile because it compares one object to another using "like/as"

2. im not sure

3. personification - "cellphone crawled" is personification because you are giving an inanimate object the ability to perform an action done by living organisms.

4. im not sure

5. irony

6. simile "red as a tomato" uses like/as to compare two things

7. irony - it is ironic that rafael tried to climb the tree to get a kite but then got stuck trying to do so

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