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2.8 - Figurative Language Answers Exercise 3B PDF

This document contains comprehension questions about figurative language used in various short passages and cartoons. It tests understanding of metaphors, similes, idioms and personification. For example, it asks about the meanings implied by phrases like "a doll's house" and expressions like "his eyes burned with fires of fury." It also contains questions on puns and ambiguous meanings of words used in the cartoons.

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2.8 - Figurative Language Answers Exercise 3B PDF

This document contains comprehension questions about figurative language used in various short passages and cartoons. It tests understanding of metaphors, similes, idioms and personification. For example, it asks about the meanings implied by phrases like "a doll's house" and expressions like "his eyes burned with fires of fury." It also contains questions on puns and ambiguous meanings of words used in the cartoons.

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Comprehension Language Use for Impact Question

Exercise 3B FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE


1. Bungalow was a doll's house
2. David sat in the dining room
3. Beefstik
4. Mum's Energy Drink
5. Are you dying to send that text message?
6. Soul hurts
7. Taut as wire
8 Whisky feeling
9. Trapped in a spider's web
10. Eyes burned with fires of fury
11. Isabelle was ecstastic
12. Anna listening to the devil and angel
Exercise 3B Figurative Language

1. What does the phrase “doll's house'' tell us about


the author's bungalow?
It was extremely small compared to the other
houses on Dale Avenue.

2. (a)What is effective about the word “exploded”?


(line 8)
This is to show that the ringing was extremely loud,
and had thus, given David a shock.

3(a) “...a mess of beans”


What does the word “mess” suggest about the
beans?
They looked/were unappetising/unpalatable.

(b) “Here comes our shoe leather strips!”


What does Jun-Jun's comment suggest about the beef?
The beef was very tough. /It was very difficult/almost impossible to chew. It was
inedible.

(c) “...an angelic smile plastered on his face”


What does the word “plastered” suggest about Jun-Jun's smile?
It was fake/insincere/not genuine.

(d) “...our weekly battle with Tita's beefstick,”


What does the word “battle” suggest about Tita's beefstik?
It was extremely difficult to eat. /They had to struggle to eat it.

(e) What does the word “juicy” suggest about the bits of gossip Tita Adelina
shared with the author and her brother?
They were very interesting

Bonus Inferential Question


(f) “...such a dubious talent”
What does the word “dubious” suggest about Maria's attitude to her brother's
talent?
She was not impressed by it at all

Bonus Use Your Own Words Question


(g) Explain what the author means by “demonstrate his dental prowess.”
display the strength of his teeth/ “Show how strong his teeth were.”
Exercise 3B Figurative Language

4. What are the two possible meanings of “You'll never get better?”

(i) You'll never get a better energy drink than Mum's Energy drink.
(ii) If you're tired and you try Mum's energy drink, it will have no effect
whatsover on you – you will feel just as tired as you did before you tried the
drink.

5. The caption is the poster makes use of a pun on the word “dying”. What are
the two possible meanings of “dying” in this caption?

(i) The first meaning is the literal meaning of “dying” which is losing one's life.
(ii) The second meaning is “feeling an urgent need to do something”

6. In the last panel, the novice monk uses a pun on the word “soul”. Explain
the two possible meanings of “how my soul hurts”, based on your
understanding of the cartoon.

(i) His soul hurts, which is why he is seeking enlightenment with the help of
the Master OR His soul hurts, so he is in need of spiritual guidance.

(ii) The soles of his feet hurt because he had been climbing the mountain
barefoot the past ten days.
Exercise 3B Figurative Language

7. What is effective about the simile “as taut as wire”?


It suggest that the tension was evident in her voice.

8.(a) What is effective about the simile “like a lash of the whip”?
It suggests that her father's words caused her a lot of pain / were very painful
to hear.

(b) What is effective about the simile “like fire in her throat''?
It suggests that she felt like the whisky was burning her throat/ that the
whisky was burning its way down her throat.

9What is effective about the simile “like a fly trapped in a spider's web”?
It suggests that she is in a very dangerous situation, from which there is no
escape. OR It suggests that her life is in danger, and there is no way for her to
escape from this situation.

10. (a) What is effective about the expression “his eyes burned with fires of
fury”?
It suggests that he was extremely angry, and his rage was evident in the way
he stared at her/ his rage was evident in his eyes.

(b)What is effective about the expression “his face a grotesque mask of rage
and pain”?
It suggests that his face had been so transformed by his rage and pain that it
became unrecognizable./ It suggests the great intensity of his rage and the
pain he felt.
Exercise 3B Figurative Language

11 (a) Why was Isabelle trying to sneak out of the house?


She thought that her brother, being conservative, may not
approve of her wearing the ripped jeans, and may ask her to
change her outfit.

(b) What was her brother suggesting about her jeans when
he said, “I think there're some jeans in your holes.”
There were too many holes in her jeans.

12 (a) “It's a drop in his financial ocean.”


What is effective about this metaphor?
(i) It suggests that her boss is filthy
rich/obscenely rich.
(ii) It suggests that a few hundred
thousand dollars is an insignificant amount
of money to her boss.

In this text, the author personifies Anna's conscience and the devil in her.
Identify three expressions in the text that suggest that the devil in her is a
person.
(i) drawled in ear/ twirled her trident in her hand/ in her skintight bright red
unitard/ shoved her aside/ snapped/ fixing me with her beady eye/ stood
there with her arms akimbo/ taunting me

Identify three expressions in the text that suggest that her conscience is a
person.
(ii) staring her down/ hissed “Don't you listen to her nonsense, Anna. You
know we'll get through this somehow. You'll get into trouble with the law if
you steal from the company!”/ played a soothing strain on her golden harp/
her long white gown/ shrieking, “No! Don't listen to her!”

What is effective about the the author's use of personification in this text?
(iii) It makes it very clear to the reader how difficult it was for Anna to choose
between right and wrong. OR It makes it easier for the reader to visualize
Anna's struggle to decide whether or not to steal money from the company.

(c) What was Anna's devil's advocate suggesting that she do?
She was suggesting that Anna should steal a few hundred thousand dollars
from the company.

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