Understanding Figurative Language in Literature

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Explore the world of figurative language through metaphors, similes, and personification with examples from literary works. Dive into the power of language to evoke imagery and emotions. Test your knowledge with a fun quiz included in the content.


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  1. Figurative Language

  2. Metaphor describes something as something else that seems unrelated Purpose: it shows us what these two things have in common. Example: A humorous suggestion was made that she sing the notes on her face (51)

  3. Simile compares two things using like or as Example: as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress (76)

  4. Personification gives human qualities to inanimate things Example: As my taxi groaned away (81)

  5. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags p. 8)

  6. A figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor s mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars (p. 20).

  7. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon (p.93)

  8. this fifth guest s shrill metallic urgency (p. 15)

  9. Your place looks like the Worlds Fair (p. 81).

  10. This is a valley of ashesa fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills (p. 23)

  11. Quiz!

  12. A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril (69).

  13. Personification

  14. as drunk as a monkey (76)

  15. simile

  16. the red, white, and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and said tut-tut-tut-tut (74)

  17. personification

  18. flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near 62

  19. simile

  20. :lived like a young rajah (65

  21. simile

  22. the world and its mistress 61

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