Figurative Language Of O. Henry Worksheet Page 3
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412. Jeff Peters has been engaged in as many schemes for making money as there are recipes for cooking
rice in Charleston, South Carolina.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, onomatopoeia,
simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement.
Explain how you figured it out:
13. He was making internal noises that would have had everybody in San Francisco hiking for the parks.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, onomatopoeia,
simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement.
Explain how you figured it out:
14. She began to talk in Spanish, a mournful stream of melancholy music.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, onomatopoeia,
simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement.
Explain how you figured it out:
15. She smiled at me the same as if I was a millionaire.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, onomatopoeia,
simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement.
Explain how you figured it out:
16. It was considered an improper act to shoot the bride and groom at a wedding.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, onomatopoeia,
simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement
Explain how you figured it out:
17. For there drifted out sweet music that caught him and held him transfixed against the iron fence.
What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________
Alliteration, onomatopoeia,
simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement.
Explain how you figured it out:
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