EXERCISE 4.6 Recognizing Similes and Metaphors

EXERCISE 4.6 Recognizing Similes and Metaphors

EXERCISE 4.6

Recognizing Similes and Metaphors

Identify each of the following excerpts as a simile or metaphor and explain the items being compared. What is the tone of each excerpt? How does the figurative language help to convey a particular impression?

Question 4.19

1. “She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Three Gables”

Question 4.20

2. “Her father had inherited that temper; and at times, like antelope fleeing before fire on the slope, his people fled from his red rages.” — Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage

Question 4.21

3. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” — William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

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