Question

Highlight, identify and list all the figurative language used in the passage below.

The clock grinned mischievously as Marie crept slowly up the creaking old stairs. Creak, creak, the stairs were grumbling... She was as quiet as a mouse as her heart beat like a drum in her chest. She stopped suddenly, when she saw a shadow at the top of the stairs lurking like a vulture, waiting for prey. She started to shake nervously, beads of sweat forming on her brow as she advanced. She was quiet, dead quiet.
Then, the shadow moved and turned to face her...

Answer 1

Personification: "The clock grinned mischievously."

Onomatopoeia: "Creak, creak, the stairs were grumbling..."

Simile: "She was as quiet as a mouse."

Metaphor: "Her heart beat like a drum in her chest."

Simile: "A shadow at the top of the stairs lurking like a vulture."

Personification: "Beads of sweat forming on her brow."

Hyperbole: "She was quiet, dead quiet." (Exaggeration for emphasis)