Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
Tone
Mood
Phrase or Clause
100


What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet, the sun!

Metaphor


Juliet= compared to the sun

100

Identify the part of speech

Quickly, the children ran to grab the candy from the piñata.

Adverb

100

What is the tone?


My heart quailed at the idea of sharing a roof with her again, all of us swept up in the tornado vortex of her illness.

fearful; scared

100

What is the mood?


The child sat without moving, her eyes taking in the whole scene, and all around was a great stillness, only broken by soft, light puffs of wind that swayed the light bells of the blue flowers, and the shining gold heads of the cistus, and set them nodding merrily on their slender stems.

peaceful; calming

100

Phrase or Clause?

I like the guy with the green shirt.

Clause (independent)

200

“Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East . . .”

Simile

mind=compared to tiny boxes

200

In the morning, Michael and Shannon cooked a huge breakfast that all of their friends enjoyed.

Article(s)

200

What is the tone?


“I couldn’t wait to go to the carnival, smell the hot dogs, taste the cotton candy, and feel the exhilaration of riding the Ferris Wheel!”

excited

200

What is the mood?"


The storm raged. Lightning cracked. Wendy the Witch stirred her brew. She was feeling a tad bit evil tonight. She felt like casting a curse on someone. The rain pounded the tin roof of her shack as she searched for her toad warts.

dreary, tense, suspenseful, scary 

200

Phase or Clause?

Mark has lived outside of his country for 14 years.

phrase

300

New York is know as "the city that never sleeps.”

personification


cities cannot physically sleep

300

Even though Kayla studied all night, she did not score well on her History exam.

Object of the preposition


will accept noun

300

What is the tone?


"We are going to eat hot dogs and cotton candy and ride the Ferris Wheel tonight.”

neutral; matter of fact

300

What is the mood?


"Class, it's time to hand in your homework," said Mrs. Shelby. Eric opened his folder. He flipped through the pages. He looked in his other folders. He couldn't find it. "Class, if you don't turn it in now, it's going to be late."

anxious; stressful; panicked

300

They were annoyed by the baby crying so loudly.


phrase

400

After her 12 hour shift at the coffee shop with no customers, she decided to call it a day.

Idiom

no literal meaning connecting to the topic, but implies a deeper meaning

400

"Please hand me that stack of papers." Ms. Orwell said.

Adverb

Which stack? That-- adverb

400

What is the tone?

Hey Clark,’ he said. ‘Tell me something good.’ I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. And I told him of the adventures they had, the places they had gone, and the things I had seen that I had never expected to.

Hopeful; uplifting

400

What is the mood?

"There were five seconds left on the clock. Lawrence jumped and shot just as the buzzer rang. The ball rolled went in and the crowd exploded. Confetti rained in the arena. The whole city celebrated. There would be a parade around the city this week."

energetic; joyous; cheerful

400

Phrase or Clause?


Although injured, John managed to crawl to safety.


Clause (independent)

500

The dinner the chef prepared was awfully good!

Oxymoron

Two words that contradict, but make sense in context

500

It has been a long time since I have heard this song.

conjunction (subordinating)

500

What is the tone?


“I’ll always remember the smell of hot dogs and cotton candy at our local carnival. I was scared of the Ferris Wheel, but I always rode it to keep my brother company.”

nostalgic; sentimental

500

What is the mood?


Tommy sprawled on the couch. He ate a handful of chips. The TV blared. He wanted to change the channel. The remote was too far away. Maybe he would go outside to play today, he thought. But maybe it was hot. Tommy stayed on the couch.

lazy; lethargic

500

Phrase or Clause?


She was going to go to the movies, but she couldn't find a ride.

clause (dependent)

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