Figurative Language
What type of figurative language is this? Miss Paige is as tall as a tree.
Simile
Why is the main character's name Ashputtel?
She sleeps in ashes
I went to the store to buy milk.
Simple
What type of figurative language is this? The bee buzzed in my ear.
onomatopoeia
How old is the speaker?
22
What type of figurative language is this? He's a couch potato.
Metaphor
What does Ashputtel ask her father to bring back from his trip?
A branch
I want to eat lunch with Lil Nas X, but I don't have his number.
compound
What type of figurative language is this? I am the smartest person in the world.
Hyperbole
What kind of advice does the wise man give the speaker?
Love
What type of figurative language is this? The stars winked in the night sky.
Personification
Who helps Ashputtel get to the festival?
A white dove
I need eggs from the grocery store, yet I will not go.
Compound
What type of figurative language is this? Easy as ABC
Simile
Which word best best describes the speaker's tone?
Reflective
What type of figurative language is this? It takes two to tango.
Idiom
Why does the stepmother dump the peas in the ashes?
The stepmother does not want Ashputtel to go to the festival, so she dumps the peas in the ashes. The stepmother believes she is giving Ashputtel an impossible task that will keep her so busy that the girl will stop asking.
Because today is Friday, Miss Paige is happy.
Complex
What type of figurative language is this? Big body Bertha
Alliteration
What is this an example of? "And I am two-and-twenty, and oh, 'tis true, 'tis true."
Alliteration
What type of figurative language is this? Civil
Oxymoron
What is the theme of the story?
The story’s theme is that if you are a good person, good things will eventually happen to you.
After I go to the store, I will go to the mall with my sister, but I don't have any money.
Compound-complex
What type of figurative language is this? I wish I could be a doctor, but I don’t have the patients.
Pun
What is one theme of When I Was One-And-Twenty?
One theme focuses on youth and inexperience. Young and naive individuals often ignore advice from others, learning only from experience and by making mistakes themselves. Another theme focuses on love, suggesting that love inevitably leads to pain and suffering.