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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.”