Words and Images
Chapters 1 - 3

metaphor A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily specifies one thing is used to point out another, thus making an understood comparison

Example  -  embers of red snow were falling everywhere 

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simile A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as

Example -  fire moving like an ocean surf on a sand beach

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personification A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are given human qualities or are represented as possessing human form

Example -  a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O'Learys' barn

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Determine which literary element each of the following phrases from The Great Fire is an example:

1.  ___________________ blazing forest of Wisconsin would have been as effective as were these machines in this forest of shanties
2.  ___________________ embers greeted Sullivan as he entered the building
3.  ___________________ carrying a wooden door, which he positioned like a warrior's shield between Anderson and the fire
4.  ___________________ two valuable links in the chain of defense were gone
5.  ___________________ the fire was taking hold of his neighbor's shed and fence
6.  ___________________ a wind that was blowing directly toward the heart of the city
7.  ___________________ it pushed out fists of flame that ate up clapboard siding, shingled roofs, fences, trees, outhouses, and chicken coops
8.  ___________________ watching the fire's terrible march
9.  ___________________ flames hundreds of feet into the sky and created such a bright light that it reminded some people of daylight
10.  ___________________ fire ran along the dry grass and leaves
11.  ___________________ The fire was spreading so rapidly ...the dogs of hell were upon the housetops
12.  ___________________ the fire really had leaped across the river
13.  ___________________ red tongues of light began to shoot upward
14.  ___________________ listening to the wind, that was making a noise very much like the lake on a stormy night
15.  ___________________ a building burst into flames as if it were built of dry straw