2. The trees billowed over the creek and stretched to the sky as if reaching for something
that they could never touch. What figurative language is used here?
3. She accepted the bouquet. It was filled with her favorite flowers - white roses, purple irises, and soft sprays of baby's breath. They smelled like a fresh hope. She stroked the velvety petals of the flower as the smell inhaled their sweet fragrance. What type
language is being used here?
4. "It's a step forward although there was no progress." - President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
What figurative language is used here?
5. Black is often used to represent death or evil, White stands for life and purity, Red
can represent blood, passion, danger, or immoral character, Purple is a royal color: it
can mean grandeur, pride or extravagance. Yellow can be
decay. What figurative language is used here?
for violence or
6. "A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for
there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see
outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" -To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee.
What figurative language is used here?
7. "And life is too much like a pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with
the cobwebs" - Birches" by Robert Frost What figurative language is used in this?
Idiom
8. "Do not go gentle into that good night." - Dylan Thomas uses night as a
(type pf figurative language) for death to great effect in his poem,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
9. Extend an olive branch - This phrase hearkens back to the Greek myth of Athena
who gifted the olive tree to the Athenians and the Biblical story of Noah, when a
dove came back bearing an olive branch to show the great flood waters had receded
and the animals could safely leave the ark. Today the phrase means to offer peace
or a truce after a disagreement. What kind of figurative language is this?
10. The buzzing bee zoomed past my ear and I wailed in fear. "Agggghhhh!" I cried. I'm
incredibly allergic to bees. What figurative language is boeing used here?
