Assignment based on Nevada Education Standard L.11-12.5
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Write a list of 5 words and give similes for them, as well as identifying the small differences between the meaning of the word.
Out of these words which would best fit to replace "conscience" in this sentence “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” from Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mocking Bird"?
A simile is a form of figurative language that compares using like and as.
This line from Ernest Hemmingway's "The Old man and The Sea" is an example of Metaphor. “Each line, as thick around as a big pencil, was looped onto a green-sapped stick.”
Write a few sentences that include at least three kinds of figurative language. List each type used.
"More silent seemed the son of Ecglaf in boastful speech of his battle-deeds, since athelings all, through the earl's great prowess, beheld that hand, on the high roof gazing, foeman's fingers,—the forepart of each of the sturdy nails to steel was likest,— heathen's "hand-spear," hostile warrior's claw uncanny" What kinds of figurative language can be found in this excerpt from "Beowulf"
What kind of figurative language doess 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse' represent?
What are the small differences between "skinny", "thin", and "slender' even though they all mean 'not fat'?
“The brightness of her cheek would shame those same stars.” What kinds of figures of speech does this line from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" show?
Which of these phrases use figurative language?