Question

lesson assessment: figurative langu
match each of the figurative language, in the textbox below, to excerpts from the story \moby
dick.\
(a) metaphor (b) simile (c) personification (d) alliteration (e) hyperbole
figurative
language
excerpt from moby dick
\but the sea refuses no river.\
in this brief but powerful example, the author discusses the sea as an
entity capable of refusing or accepting, giving it a human-like quality of
decision-making.
\he piled upon the whales white hump the sum of all the general rage
and hate felt by his whole race from adam down; and then, as if his
chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot hearts shell upon it.\
the author uses this exaggerated statement to emphasize captain
ahabs all-consuming hatred for moby dick.
\all visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. but in each
event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but
still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind
the unreasoning mask.\
in this passage, captain ahab figuratively describes his worldview by
comparing the object \pasteboard masks,\ suggesting that what we see
on the surface is just a facade.
\the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver.\
this comparison creates a vivid image in the readers mind, emphasizing
the beauty and reflective quality of the waves as they move.
\the white whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all
those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till
they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.\
the repetition of the \m\ sound in \monomaniac,\ \malicious,\ and \men\
emphasizes the obsessive and destructive nature of captain ahabs
pursuit of moby dick.

Explanation:

• For "But the sea refuses no river": Personification gives human - like qualities (refusing) to the sea.
• For "He piled upon the whale’s white hump...": Hyperbole is used as it exaggerates the emotions.
• For "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks": Metaphor compares visible objects to pasteboard masks without using "like" or "as" (in the key comparison part).
• For "The waves rolled by like scrolls of silver": Simile uses "like" to compare waves to scrolls of silver.
• For "The white whale swam before him as the monomaniac...": Alliteration is present with the repetition of the "m" sound.

Answer:

1. (C) Personification
2. (E) Hyperbole
3. (A) Metaphor
4. (B) Simile
5. (D) Alliteration