Figurative Language: Similes
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- Q1"The snow fell hissing in the brine, and the billows frothed like yeast." The billows frothing is compared to what?BrineSnowYeastWater30s
- Q2"She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, then leaped her cable's length." The ship is compared to what?A steedCableA tigerThe skipper's daughter30s
- Q3"Through the whistling sleet and snow, like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept towards the reef of Norman's Woe." The ship is compared to what?A ghostSnowThe reefSleet30s
- Q4"Through the whistling sleet and snow, like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept towards the reef of Norman's Woe." What do you think Longfellow achieves by comparing the ship to a ghost?Longfellow is describing the ship as scaryLongfellow is explaining that the ship looks white like a ghostLongfellow is hinting that the ship is doomed30s
- Q5"The breakers were right beneath her bows, she drifted a dreary wreck, and a whooping billow swept the crew like icicles from her deck. " The crew being swept from the deck is compared to what?WreckBreakersBowsIcicles30s
- Q6"She struck where the white and fleecy waves looked soft as carded wool, but the cruel rocks, they gored her side like the horns of an angry bull." The rocks are compared to what?IciclesCarded woolThe wavesHorns of a bull30s
- Q7"Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, with the masts went by the board; like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho! ho! the breakers roared!" What is the ship compared to here?GlassShroudsWoodIce30s
- Q8"Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, with the masts went by the board; like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho! ho! the breakers roared!" By comparing the ship to glass, Longfellow achieves what?Longfellow explains how sturdy the ship is in the stormLongfellow explains how beautiful the ship looks in the stormLongfellow explains just how fragile and delicate the ship is in the fierce storm30s
- Q9"The salt sea was frozen on her breast, the salt tears in her eyes; and he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, on the billows fall and rise." What is the simile here?Salt sea was frozen on her breasther hair, like brown sea-weedsalt tears in her eyeson the billows fall and rise30s