Name ______

Directions: Match the example of figurative language to the author you think wrote it. The authors may have written more than one. Label what type of figurative language it is.

1.  ______Shakespeare

2.  ______Edgar Allen Poe

3.  ______Ernest Hemingway

4.  ______Maya Angelou

5.  ______F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.  ______Charles Dickens

7.  ______John Steinbeck

8.  ______Mark Twain

Read the following paragraphs. Identify the figurative language and how it adds to the tone, mood, and writing style of the text.

From Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart

“It is impossible to say how the idea first entered my head. There was no reason for what I did. I did not hate the old man; I even loved him. He had never hurt me. I did not want his money. I think it was his eye. His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it. When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back; even my blood became cold. And so, I finally decided I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever!”

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From Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn

“He was most fifty, and he looked it. His hair was long and tangled and greasy, and hung down, and you could see his eyes shining through like he was behind vines. It was all black, no gray; so was his long, mixed-up whiskers. There warn’t no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man’s white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body’s flesh crawl—a treetoad white, a fish-belly white. As for his clothes—just rags, that was all. He had one ankle resting on t’other knee; the boot on that foot was busted, and two of his toes stuck through, and he worked them now and then. His hat was laying on the floor—an old black slouch with the top caved in, like a lid.”

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From Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

“The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. There was fighting in the mountains and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery. In the dark it was like summer lightning, but the nights were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm coming.”

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