The Red Badge of Courage: Imagery and Figurative Language (Chapters 1-3) Worksheet

"one of those great affairs of the earth"; "crimson blotches on the pages of the past"
"a series of death struggles with small time in between for sleep and meals"; the red animal"; "the blood-swollen god"
"part of a vast blue demonstration"
"visions of broken-bladed glory"
"like two serpents crawling from the cavern of the night"
"sprang up like strange plants"
"red, eye-like gleam"; "like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night"; "the orbs of a row of dragons advancing"
"a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to flee"
"iron laws of tradition and law on four sides...in a moving box"
"digging at the ground like terriers"
"nothing but rest"
"like observant phantoms"; "a long gray wall"
"like the roar of an oncoming train"
"a glance as from the depths of a tomb"
"the stealthy approach of his death"