Students complete nine fill-in-the-blank problems identifying personification, metaphor, and simile in winter nature sentences. The matching activity pairs four winter expressions — stars winking, a warm smile simile, snowflake dancers, and alliterative snow — with their literary device labels.
Matching winter figurative expressions to literary device labels — including alliteration alongside personification, metaphor, and simile — requires students to distinguish all four types using winter atmospheric writing as the context.
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Winter Holiday Math & Reading
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. "The frost painted the window" is an example of personification.
2. "The snow was a white blanket over the town" is a metaphor.
3. "Icicles sparkled like diamonds in the sun" is a simile.
4. "Slippery, sliding sleds sped downhill" uses alliteration.
5. Giving human actions to non-human things is called personification.
6. A comparison using "like" or "as" is called a simile.
7. "The wind howled through the trees" gives the wind a human action.
8. A direct comparison without "like" or "as" is a metaphor.
9. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds is called alliteration.
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 stars winked at us on that cold night
→ Personification
Simile
Her smile was as warm as hot cocoa
→ Simile
Alliteration
Snowflakes are tiny dancers twirling down
→ Metaphor
Personification
Crisp, cold, crunchy snow covered the yard
→ Alliteration
Metaphor
Winter Holiday Math & Reading
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) "The frost painted the window" is an example of personification.
2) "The snow was a white blanket over the town" is a metaphor.
3) "Icicles sparkled like diamonds in the sun" is a simile.
4) "Slippery, sliding sleds sped downhill" uses alliteration.
5) Giving human actions to non-human things is called personification.
6) A comparison using "like" or "as" is called a simile.
7) "The wind howled through the trees" gives the wind a human action.
8) A direct comparison without "like" or "as" is a metaphor.
9) The repetition of beginning consonant sounds is called alliteration.
★ 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 stars winked at us on that cold night
→ Personification
Simile
Her smile was as warm as hot cocoa
→ Simile
Alliteration
Snowflakes are tiny dancers twirling down
→ Metaphor
Personification
Crisp, cold, crunchy snow covered the yard
→ Alliteration
Metaphor
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