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Tuck Figurative Language Worksheet

This document provides examples of different types of figurative language from the novel Tuck Everlasting including simile, metaphor, personification, and symbolism. It asks the reader to identify the type of figurative language being used in each example and explain the meaning. It also asks the reader to find another example of each type of figurative language in the prologue or first two chapters and provide the quote, page number, and an explanation of meaning.

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Tuck Figurative Language Worksheet

This document provides examples of different types of figurative language from the novel Tuck Everlasting including simile, metaphor, personification, and symbolism. It asks the reader to identify the type of figurative language being used in each example and explain the meaning. It also asks the reader to find another example of each type of figurative language in the prologue or first two chapters and provide the quote, page number, and an explanation of meaning.

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Novel Advanced: Figurative Language

Tuck Everlasting

Name: _______________________

Simile: compares two unlike things using the words like or as.
Metaphor: compare two unlike things without like or as.
Personification: gives human characteristics to non-human objects.
Symbolism: when an object is meant to be representative of something or an idea greater than
the object itself.
Activity 1:
Read each of the following quotes from the novel Tuck Everlasting. Identify which type of
figurative language is being used and then explain the meaning of the figurative language.
1. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A Ferris
wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. (p. 4)
Type: ______________________________________
Meaning: ____________________________________________________________________
2. But on reaching the shadows of the first trees, [the road] veered sharply, swung out in a wide
arc as if, for the first time, it had reason to think where it was going, and passed around. (p.5)
Type: ______________________________________
Meaning: ____________________________________________________________________
3. And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to
its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin. (p. 8)
Type: ______________________________________
Meaning: ____________________________________________________________________
4. Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman (p.10)
Type: ______________________________________
Meaning: ____________________________________________________________________

Activity 2:
Can you find another example of these types of figurative language in the Prologue-Chapter 2?
Below, write the page number, the type of language, the quote with the example, and its
meaning.
Simile:
Page # __________

Type: ____________

Quote: ___________________________________________________________________

Meaning: ____________________________________________________________________

Metaphor:
Page # __________

Type: ____________

Quote: ___________________________________________________________________

Meaning: ____________________________________________________________________

Personification:
Page # __________

Type: ____________

Quote: ___________________________________________________________________

Meaning: ____________________________________________________________________

Symbolism:
Page # __________

Type: ____________

Quote: ___________________________________________________________________

Meaning: ____________________________________________________________________

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