Question

Match each element of figurative language with its example from Kate Chopin's "The Storm."




Potential Matches:


1 : They seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life's mystery.



2 : Somber clouds that were rolling with sinister intention.



3 : Then he returned to his perch on the keg and sat stolidly (unemotionally), holding the can of shrimps while the storm burst.



4 : Oh! she remembered; for in Assumption he had kissed her and kissed and kissed her; until his senses would well nigh fail, and to save her he would resort to a desperate flight.



5 : "If this keeps up, Dieu sait if the levee's goin' to stan it!"

6 : Her lips were as red and moist as pomegranate seeds.


7 : The rain was coming down in sheets, obscuring (blocking) the view of far-off cabins and enveloping the distant wood in a gray mist.


8 : If she was not an immaculate (perfect) dove in those days, she was still inviolate (untouched).


9 : Adjoining was her bed room...The door stood open.



Answer: Metaphor, Simile, Imagery, Allusion, Personification, Symbolism, Hyperbole, Flashback, Foreshadowing