📚 Part 1: Identifying Figurative Language

1. Read this sentence from Storm Boy: "He was a wiry, wizened man with a flash of white teeth and a jolly black face as screwed-up and wrinkled as an old boot."

What type of figurative language is used here?

Simile

Metaphor

Alliteration

Personification

2. "When a tiger snake came sliding through the grass to the shore like a thin stream of black glass barred with red hot coals."

What is being compared in this simile?

3. In the phrase "little bundles of dark down" (describing baby birds), what type of figurative language is this?

Simile

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

4. Why do you think Colin Thiele used the simile "as screwed-up and wrinkled as an old boot" to describe Fingerbone Bill's face?

✏️ Part 2: Creating Your Own Figurative Language

5. Complete these similes about the Coorong setting:

a) The water sparkled like ___________________________

b) The wind howled as loudly as ______________________

c) The sand dunes stretched out like ___________________

6. Write a metaphor to describe Storm Boy's pelican, Mr Percival:

Mr Percival was _________________________________

7. Create your own descriptive paragraph about a character from Storm Boy using at least one simile and one metaphor. You may describe Storm Boy, Fingerbone Bill, or Storm Boy's father.