Literary devices

Question 1

Like a first grade puppet show

Answer 1

simile

Question 2

It’s like a six-legged freak

Answer 2

simile

Question 3

Uh, those girls are like walking pricker bushes

Answer 3

simile

Question 4

Milk will feel like it’s orange juice if it is told enough

Answer 4

metaphor

Question 5

Like I’m a can of soup and they can just read the list of ingredients and know everything about me. There’s lots of stuff about the soup inside that they can’t put on the label, like how it smells and tastes and makes you feel warm when you eat it.

Answer 5

symbol

Question 6

And the pictures in my head pop like bubbles.

Answer 6

simile

Question 7

This has been killing me

Answer 7

hyperbole

Question 8

His voice is quiet. Like a boy

Answer 8

simile

Question 9

You may have a skull full of brains, but, again, Albert . . . no sense

Answer 9

irony

Question 10

Well, I say this is like trying to give Jell-O a spine

Answer 10

simile

Question 11

Keisha is trying to help him, but I think it’s like throwing him an anchor for a life jacket

Answer 11

simile

Question 12

Keisha hangs over the table laughing while Albert looks like I stuck him with a pin.

Answer 12

simile

Question 13

Like walking pricker bushes

Answer 13

Simile

Question 14

The ice cream on Ellis island

Answer 14

Symbol

Question 15

Like I was a disease on two feet

Answer 15

Simile