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Figurative Language Worksheet 01

The document contains 10 examples of figurative language from poems. For each example, the student identified the technique being used (simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole) and explained how they determined their answer. The techniques identified include: 1) simile 2) hyperbole 3) personification 4) metaphor 5) hyperbole 6) personification 7) metaphor 8) simile 9) personification 10) metaphor. The student provided short 1 sentence explanations for each answer referring to the presence or absence of "like" and attribution of human traits to non-human objects.

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Figurative Language Worksheet 01

The document contains 10 examples of figurative language from poems. For each example, the student identified the technique being used (simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole) and explained how they determined their answer. The techniques identified include: 1) simile 2) hyperbole 3) personification 4) metaphor 5) hyperbole 6) personification 7) metaphor 8) simile 9) personification 10) metaphor. The student provided short 1 sentence explanations for each answer referring to the presence or absence of "like" and attribution of human traits to non-human objects.

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Name: Amna Alshehhi 10A

Figurative Language Worksheet 1


Directions: Read the lines of poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. Figure out which technique is
being used: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. In the boxes, explain how you figured out
your answer. It is possible that more than one technique is being used. If you can, explain each.

1. Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed


Which technique is being used?

Simile
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

Because there is there word “like” and its compares the burned torches to the mans bed

2. Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams.  / Drip—hiss—the rain never stops.
Which technique is being used?

Hyperbole
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
Exaggerating the amount that the sink leaked.

3. When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears,

Which technique is being used?

Personification
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

attribution of personal qualities

4. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,


The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
Which technique is being used?

Metaphor
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
Comparing the moon to a ghost ship without using "like" or "as."
5. I do not care to talk to you although / Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies,
Which technique is being used?
Hyperbole
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
It is hyperbole because Cooney and Barrows did not literally die, they were just tagged out.

6. The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:
Which technique is being used?
Personification
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
This is personification because the sun is given the human trait of doing something with all of
"his might."

7. The leaves are little yellow fish / swimming in the river.


Which technique is being used?
Metaphor
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer
Because the leaves are compared to fish without using "like" or "as."

8. The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves,
Which technique is being used?
Simile
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
The clock is compared to a sleepless mourner and its using like

9. By the lakes that thus outspread / Their lone waters, lone and dead / Their sad waters,
sad and chilly
Which technique is being used?
Personification
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
The waters cannot be sad. This is a human trait.

10. Fame is a bee. / It has a song -- / It has a sting --

Which technique is being used?


Metaphor
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
Fame is being compared to a bee without using "like" or "as."

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