Figurative Language in After Ever After
Directions: The following passages are excerpts from (or are based on events in) the story After Ever
After by Jordan Sonnenblick. You need to determine whether or not the passage is an example of a
simile, a metaphor, foreshadowing, irony, or symbolism. Write your answer in the blank beside the
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______ “He looks at me like I am a particularly loathsome slice of school-lunch meatloaf.” (pg. 3)
______”Hoping is your first mistake.” (pg. 9)
_____Jeffrey’s dad is a math machine.
_____”I looked like a cross between Ben Franklin and a Franklin stove.” (pg. 33)
_____Jeffrey is a fat whale if he does not exercise.
_____”I gave in and ripped into that thing like a raging rodeo bull going after a slow cowboy.”
(pg. 29)
_____Flash McGrath weighed 300 pounds and smoked a lot, but he used to be a star sprinter.
_____Pluto being a planet represents Stephen’s relationship with his parents.
_____”By the way, Tad used to make fun of other people’s disabilities all the time.” (pg. 8)
_____”He was like the rock that the rest of my life had leaned on.” (pg. 34).
Write an original example of each:
Simile
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Irony
Symbolism (pick a symbolic object of your choice, and explain what you would use it to represent in an
original story),