figurative language quiz

The moon was a ghostly Galleon tossed upon cloudy Seas 

metaphor

The hours crawled by like years

personification

Dead as a dog on the highway

simile

Life as a broken Winged Bird

metaphor

The road was the gypsy’s ribbon

metaphor

Over the cobbles he clattered and clacked 

onomatopeia

Or records Betsy Bop or bach

alliteration

Well now one winter it was so cold that the geese flew backwards 

hyperbole

They bound the musket beside her with the barrel beneath her breast 

allieration

There was death at every window and hell at one dark window 

personification

Oh Rose how sweet you smell and how bright you look 

apostrophe

Beautiful Tyrant fiend Angelica Dove feathered Raven 

oxymoron

It feels like I haven't seen you in a million years 

hyperbole

Now you did it old Montag wanted to fly near the Sun and now he's burned his damned wings and wonders why 

Allusion

He felt his head turned like a stone carving to the dark place next door

simile

The book leapt and danced like roasted Birds their wings Ablaze

personifaction/simile

 A great nuzzlng gout of fire leapt out to lap at the books and knock them 

personification

The house bedding itself down in a sleepy pink gray cinders

personification

They turned their faces like blanched meat streaming sweats 

simile

A shotgun blast went off in his leg every time he put it down

metaphor

Montag lay Watching The Dead Alive thing fiddle the air and die 

oxymoron

The fire snapped the Hound up in the air brust its metal bones at the joints and blew it's interior in a single flushing of red color like a skyrocket 

personifaction/simile

When he put his weight on it a shower of silver needles gushed up his leg 

metaphor