Alliteration: When a writer deliberately repeats a letter or sound to create an interesting effect/sound with the words, e.g. “The wild, whooshing wind”

 

Simile: When you compare 2 things, usually using the words “like” or “as”

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Metaphor: When you say something “is/are” or “was/were” something else

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Personification: When something not human is given human traits  “The wind whistled”

 

1) The castle… “looked like a great star resting on the seashore”( p.141) -

What type of figurative language has been used in this sentence?

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2) “Aslan stood in the center of a crowd of creatures” (p.137) -

Explain why C.S.Lewis didn't write “Aslan stood in the center of a group of animals?

 

3) The wardrobe sat waiting to be discovered. - Can a wardrobe really sit? - Why did the author say this? - What type of figurative language is this?

 

4) Lucy was running towards him as fast as her short legs would carry her and her face was as white as paper (p.142) - What type of figurative language is this? - What picture do you get in your head when you read it?

 

5) “ …a wolf standing on it’s hind legs…snapping and snarling” (p.142) - What 2 other words could the author have used that would have meant the same thing as “snapping and snarling”? - Why do you think he chose to use those 2 words? 

 

6) “That meant that the whole country below them lay in the evening light – forest and hills and valleys and, winding away like a silver snake, the lower part of the great river” (p.141) - Can a country lie down? - What type of figurative language is “lay in the evening light”? - What type of figurative language is “like a silver snake”? - Why do you think the author compared the river to a snake?

 

7) Peter slashed his sword at the wolf. “Quick as lightning, it turned round, its eyes flaming, and its mouth wide open in a howl of anger” (p.143) - What simile is used in this sentence from the story? - Were the wolf’s eyes really “flaming”? - Why did the author use the metaphor “its eyes flaming”?

 

8) “They felt the Specters go by them like a cold wind” (p.169) 9) A specter is a type of ghost. What did the author compare the specters to?

 

10) What type of figurative language did the author use to compare the specters?

 

11) Many of them carried torches which burned with evil looking red flames and black smoke (p.163)

 

12) Can flames be evil?

 

13) What type of figurative language has the author used in this sentence?

 

14) “The moonlight was bright and everything was quite still except for the noise of the river chattering over the stones.” - Can you spot some personification in this sentence? - What is it? - What is really happening in the story?

 

15) “They walked on in silence drinking it all in” (p.134) - Can you really “drink” silence? - What type of figurative language is this?

 

16) “and now the sun got low and the light got redder and the shadows got longer and the flowers began to think about closing” (p.135) - Do flowers really “think”? - What type of figurative language is this? - What is really happening to the flowers?

 

17) ”All round them though out of sight, there were streams, chattering, murmuring, bubbling, splashing (and even) in the distance, roaring” (p.128). - What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? - What is really happening to the streams and the water? - Why do you think the author chose to describe the water as “chattering” and “murmuring”?

 

18) “The potatoes are boiling and the kettle’s singing”, said Mrs Beaver (p.81) - Is the kettle really singing? - What is really happening to the kettle? - What type of figurative language is this?