A Child's Glacier Bay: Figurative Language
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- Q 1/8Score 0Pick the metaphor.29Gigantic tongues of ice stretch out to lick the sea.I press my face against the small airplane window.I wonder how nature has changed the bay.We march along the forest trail.
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- Q1Pick the metaphor.Gigantic tongues of ice stretch out to lick the sea.I press my face against the small airplane window.I wonder how nature has changed the bay.We march along the forest trail.60s
- Q2Pick the onomatopoeia.What's that strange sound?It's a blue grouse.Then we hear hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot.The air smells salty.60s
- Q3Pick the simile.How quickly the whale moves through the sea!Only males have yellow air sacs.Orcas are the largest member of the dolphin family.He's all puffed up like a balloon.60s
- Q4Pick the onomatopoeia.Suddenly, a split, crack, crash thunders from the glacier.The glacier must be close.We're riding an ocean roller coaster.Icebergs break free.60s
- Q5Pick the simile.Sea slush and ice chunks begin rushing by us.Ben touches a passing berg.Big, rolling swells lift our kayaks like pieces of driftwood.My mom and I paddle slowly.60s
- Q6What is being compared in this metaphor? "We're riding an ocean roller coaster at the mouth of Johns Hopkins Inlet."Ocean is compared to a roller coster.The coaster is compared to a mouth."The kayakers are compared to the inlet.Mouth is compared to Johns Hopkins.60s
- Q7"Their struggling wings sound like pages flipping in a book."literalsimileonomatopoeiametaphor60s
- Q8"The sky is as blue as the bay where icebergs float like marshmallows."onomatopoeialiteralsimilemetaphor60s
