Figurative Language Questions And Answers 2024/2025
Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. - ANS_Alliteration, Simile
Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-
contained, and solitary as an oyster - ANS_Simile, Alliteration
The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one
respect - ANS_Personification
The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slyly down at Scrooge out of a
Gothic window in the wall.. - ANS_Personification, Alliteration
There were Cains and Abels, Pharaohs' daughters; Queens of Sheba, Angelic messengers descending
through the air on clouds like feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars...and yet that face of Marley, seven
years dead, came like the ancient Prophet's rod, and swallowed up the whole. - ANS_Allusion
"The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously - ANS_Alliteration,
Onomatopoeia
On the wings of the wind," replied the Ghost - ANS_Alliteration, Hyperbole
"The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" -
ANS_Metaphor
if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world. - ANS_Personification
Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. - ANS_Alliteration, Simile
Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-
contained, and solitary as an oyster - ANS_Simile, Alliteration
The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one
respect - ANS_Personification
The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slyly down at Scrooge out of a
Gothic window in the wall.. - ANS_Personification, Alliteration
There were Cains and Abels, Pharaohs' daughters; Queens of Sheba, Angelic messengers descending
through the air on clouds like feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars...and yet that face of Marley, seven
years dead, came like the ancient Prophet's rod, and swallowed up the whole. - ANS_Allusion
"The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously - ANS_Alliteration,
Onomatopoeia
On the wings of the wind," replied the Ghost - ANS_Alliteration, Hyperbole
"The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" -
ANS_Metaphor
if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world. - ANS_Personification
