Question

extended metaphor
metaphor
simile
personification
A) Match the figurative language with its example. (2 points)
A) A playwright wrote a play that consists of a series of soliloquies delivered by different characters
about their fondest childhood memories. Which choice best describes a downside of using this
approach? (1 point)
The characters are not fully developed.
The characters’ stories are not interesting.
There is no interaction between the characters.
There is no way to judge the characters’ honesty.
 The sun winks and sends dappled light through forest’s trees.
 An entire section of a story compares how people move in a crowd to ants crawling through sand.
 My life is a tree beginning from a seed.  The man’s hair was as white as a snow-covered mountain.

Answer 1

Matches:
- Extended metaphor — "An entire section of a story compares how people move in a crowd to ants crawling through sand."
- Metaphor — "My life is a tree beginning from a seed."
- Simile — "The man’s hair was as white as a snow-covered mountain."
- Personification — "The sun winks and sends dappled light through forest’s trees."

Playwright question: "There is no interaction between the characters." (Soliloquies are individual speeches, so characters don’t interact on stage.)