Hatchet Figurative Language
Question: Simile
Answer: “The memory was like a knife cutting into him. Slicing deep into him with hate.”
Question: Personification
Answer: “Be asleep, his mind screamed at the pilot.”
Question: Metaphor
Answer: “With it came some warmth, small bits of it at first, and with the heat came clouds of insects.”
Question: simile
Answer: “The plane, committed now to landing, to crashing, fell into the wide place like a stone.”
Question: metaphor
Answer: “I have a friend now-A hungry friend, but a good one. I have a friend named fire.”
Question: metaphor
Answer: “From his height he could see not just the lake but across part of the forest, a green carpet, and it was full of life.”
Question: simile
Answer: “He reached into the nest and pulled out one at a time. There were seventeen of them, each as round as a ball.”
Question: Onomatopoeia
Answer: “Then the bird started again, and some kind of buzzing insect, and then a chattering and a cawing.”
Question: Alliteration
Answer: “He closed his eyes and slept, dreamless, deep and down.”
Question: Hyperbole
Answer: “Besides, he probably swallowed a ton of it while he was swimming out of the plane and getting to shore.”