Literary devices used in The Winter People by Joseph Bruchac

Read the explanations for these literary terms: Simile , Metaphor, Personification, Irony, Alliteration

Read each passage from the book. Identify the literary device used.

Name: Class:

1) "Our people have lost so much, I thought. We are as bare as the tamarack."
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Personification
d) Alliteration

2) "His hunger grew even greater, gnawing at his belly the way mice chew the dry bones of a deer."
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Personification
d) Alliteration

3) "It raises the hair on the back of my neck each time it creeps into my memory like a spider crossing your face as you sleep."
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Personification
d) Alliteration

4) "It still blooms each summer - red as the spilled blood of our people."
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Personification
d) Oxymoron

5) "The hearts of the Bostoniak are filled with winter."
a) Simile
b) Personification
c) Metaphor
d) Cacophony

6) "... my pot of hope and certainty was nearly empty."
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Personification
d) Paradox

7) "I was as tireless as the swallow that flew ahead of my canoe."
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Rhyme
d) Irony

8) "The stories that Chief Gill and his companions had told kept echoing in my mind."
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Paradox
d) Personification

9) "Among our people a man who is a good hunter or a fine scout is brother to the wolf. My Brother was showing me that this was the right path."
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Personification
d) Irony

10) "When one sits in silence, the forest again finds its voice."
a) Simile
b) Personification
c) Irony

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