Words and Images
Chapters 1-4

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  -  Marshall found himself trapped in a snowbound prison

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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 -  tall masts had snapped like matchsticks

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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 -  The engine sliced into the bank of snow easily, but then it seemed as if a giant hand had clamped its fingers around it.

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Determine which literary element each of the following phrases from Blizzard! is an example:

  1. ________________ spring's first dandelion show its trustful face
  2. ________________ unaware of the approaching monster as everyone he passed on the street
  3. ________________ It was as if the unholy one himself was riding in those clouds.
  4. ________________ steamships, schooners, and tugs were bobbing freely and smashing into one another like toys in a child's bath
  5. ________________ wind  was whirling the already fallen snow into tornadolike snow devils
  6. ________________ snow and ice clung to her clothes, hair, and face as if she were a statue in a park
  7. ________________ She lay there as if she were on the softest of featherbeds.
  8. ________________ In truth the land is an ocean of snow
  9. ________________ My face was scratched, red as a lobster
  10. ________________ the wind was on him like a wild animal