Edwin Rojas​.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE WORKSHEET # 6

IDENTIFY WHICH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS USED IN EACH EXCERPT. EACH REPRESENTS
JUST ONE. THEN, EXPLAIN WHAT YOU THINK SO BELOW EACH ITEM.
1.​ Conversation​: Jill: Look at these photographs. Aren’t they hysterical? Brenda:
Who are these people and why are they dressed so funny? Jilll: These are my
great grandparents. They came from Austria. That’s the way people dressed in the
old days. Brenda: Do you remember them? Jill: No, they died before I was born.
Brenda: Look at that top hat. Was your great granddad in the circus? Jill: No, he
was a banker. People wore hats like that in those days. Brenda: Look how long the
women’s dresses were. Those must have been really hot. Jill: I suppose you got
used to them. Brenda: I think I would probably step on the hem all the time. And
think how muddy the bottoms of your skirt would get when it rained. Jill: There’s no
question fashions are more comfortable now. Brenda: I wonder if our great grand
kids will laugh at our pictures in a hundred years. Jill: ​How could they. We look so
cool.
Sarcasm: Probably their great grand kids would do the same they did,
laugh.
2. “My, that was graceful,” said Mark.
Irony: seams to be an ironyc response.
3. Peter was excited about his new phone. He ran into the cafeteria to show his
best friend, Mark. As Peter ran across the room, he tripped over Ellen Carson’s
backpack. He went flying across the lunch table where the swim team was eating.
Lunch trays, cups, food, and drink went spilling over the neighboring tables. Peter
skidded to a stop in front of Mark, as Mark was doused with juice. It was many and
many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
(“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe)
Assonance: Ai sound repeated. the sentence is confusing.
4.​ ​Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear
(“After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost)
Consonance: nd repeated.
5. ​Jane Eyre​,​ ​Charlotte Brontë (1847)​. “I heard the rain still beating continuously
on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew
by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank. My habitual mood of
humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying
ire.” Descriptions of temperature and moisture are tactile imagery. In this case, the
rain and Jane’s physical discomfort mirror her dark mood.
Imaginary: The narrative implies the usage of sound sense.

6. ​Light and Fire in ​Frankenstein​:

“One day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by
some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I
experienced from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly
drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought, that the same cause should
produce opposite effects!”
Symbolism: It use the fire as a symbol.