Students complete nine fill-in-the-blank problems identifying metaphors, similes, and personification in Halloween sentences. The matching activity pairs four Halloween expressions — glowing lantern moon, dancing shadows, witch's stare simile, and a hyperbolic scare — with their literary device names.
Matching Halloween literary expressions to their device names requires students to apply figurative language identification in the atmospheric writing style typical of October seasonal texts.
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Halloween Math & Reading
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. "The graveyard was a blanket of fog" is an example of a metaphor.
2. "The witch cackled like a hyena" compares two things using "like," making it a simile.
3. Giving human qualities to non-human things, such as "the wind whispered," is called personification.
4. "Boom! Crash!" are examples of onomatopoeia, words that imitate sounds.
5. A word that means the opposite of another word is called an antonym.
6. The word "eerie" means strange and frightening.
7. A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration used for effect, like "I died of fright."
8. The repeated use of the same beginning sound, as in "ghastly ghostly groans," is called alliteration.
9. Describing something as "pitch black" uses descriptive language to help the reader picture the scene.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
The moon was a glowing lantern
→ metaphor
simile
Shadows danced across the walls
→ personification
hyperbole
Cold as a witch's stare
→ simile
personification
I was so scared I jumped a mile
→ hyperbole
metaphor
Halloween Math & Reading
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) "The graveyard was a blanket of fog" is an example of a metaphor.
2) "The witch cackled like a hyena" compares two things using "like," making it a simile.
3) Giving human qualities to non-human things, such as "the wind whispered," is called personification.
4) "Boom! Crash!" are examples of onomatopoeia, words that imitate sounds.
5) A word that means the opposite of another word is called an antonym.
6) The word "eerie" means strange and frightening.
7) A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration used for effect, like "I died of fright."
8) The repeated use of the same beginning sound, as in "ghastly ghostly groans," is called alliteration.
9) Describing something as "pitch black" uses descriptive language to help the reader picture the scene.
★ Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1) Match each item to its correct answer.
The moon was a glowing lantern
→ metaphor
simile
Shadows danced across the walls
→ personification
hyperbole
Cold as a witch's stare
→ simile
personification
I was so scared I jumped a mile
→ hyperbole
metaphor
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