Figurative Language of O Henry

Name: ________________________________________ Figurative Language of O. Henry Directions: Read each example and write which technique is being used on the line. There may be more than one correct answer; write more than one answer for extra point. Also, explain how you got your answer. Answers: alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. 1. That boy put up a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 2. Arrest seemed but a rosy dream. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 3. I went out and caught that boy and shook him until his freckles rattled. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement Explain how you figured it out: 4. Coyotes yelped. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 5. The scorn of his comrades would be a worse thing to face than the muzzles of many rifles. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement Explain how you figured it out: 6. Months went by, and still that little cloud of unforgotten cowardice hung above the camp. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 7. There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 8. Retribution was creeping up on the hoof-prints of his dapper nags. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 9. He was born in the heart of feudland. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 10. Two of the valorous volunteers waited, concealed by beer barrels. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 11. The city marshal was had decided that Calliope should no more wake the echoes of the town. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement Explain how you figured it out: 12. 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: 18. The soul of the man showed itself for a moment like an evil face in the window of a reputable house. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement Explain how you figured it out: 19. There was a confused hum of wheels below, and the sedative buzz of an electric fan. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 20. Light as a cork, he was kept bobbing along by the human tide. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 21. Well, for a while they put him to keeping books in the ranch store, for he was a devil at figures. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 22. A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: 23. Luck would again run against him. What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________ Alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or understatement. Explain how you figured it out: