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"He was a luminous cloud, a ghost that made breathing once more impossible."
Metaphor
Simile
Idiom
Irony
"He made toys for us and he did a million things in his lifetime."
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
"The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions."
Hyperbole
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Simile
"I've hit the bulls-eye. Look at that sick look on your face."
Simile
Hyperbole
Idiom
Personification
"Their covers were torn off and spilled out like swan feathers."
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Idiom
"Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll."
Personification
Simile
Analogy
Metaphor
"The helicopters were closer, a great blowing of insects to a single light source."
Simile
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
"Another year ticked by in a single hour."
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
"The day was brightening all about them as if a pink lamp had been given more wick."
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Irony
"A beetle-taxi hissed to the curb."
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Irony
Onomatopoeia
"I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking a buried mine."
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
"The bombers crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling."
Idiom AND personification
Onomatopoeia AND simile
Onomatopoeia AND Personification
Irony AND metaphor
"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
Idiom
Irony
Personification
Metaphor
"The men ran like cripples in their clumsy boots, as quietly as spiders."
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
Irony
"The way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds, like the enemy discs."
Personification AND Simile
Personification AND Metaphor
Hyperbole AND Metaphor
Irony AND Simile
"Scare the living daylights out of them!"
Irony
Idiom
Metaphor
Personification
"I'll be with you the rest of the night, a vinegar gnat tickling your ear when you need me."
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
"Each [page] becomes a black butterfly."
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Idiom
"The floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm."
Simile
Irony
Metaphor
Idiom
"The train radio vomited upon Montag."
Personification
Irony
Idiom
Simile
"Her dress was white and it whispered."
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Idiom
"He wore his happiness like a mask."
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
"I didn't do that. Never in a billion years."
Simile
Hyperbole
Irony
Metaphor
"Montag, you shin that pole like a bird up a tree."
What two things are being compared in this simile?
Montag riding the firehouse pole to a bird going up a tree
The firehouse pole to a bird
Montag's shin to a bird in a tree
A bird to a tree
"His hand had turned thief."
What is suggested by this metaphor?
The character is relieved that his hand is still there
The character is stealing something
The character feels bad for criminals
"We know how to nip most of them in the bud."
What does this idiom mean?
To stop something before it becomes a bad habit
To plant something where no one can find it
To cut something off, like hair or a string
To compare life to a garden
"The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in his air."
Which word for the quote above suggests an onomatopoeia?
air
little
dancing
hum
"She was like the eager watcher of a marionette show."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
"The windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb world."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
"A fountain of books sprang down upon Montag."
Simile
Irony
Metaphor
Idiom
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