Figurative Language (HS)

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in: "He would write, but his hours are as busy / As bees in the sun."

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Simile

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in the lines: "My words are little jars / For you to take and put upon a shelf." "Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, / And they have many pleasant colors and lusters"

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Metaphor

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in the lines: "All round the house is the jet-black night; / It stares through the window-pane; / It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light."

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Personification

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in the lines: "Oh, never, if I live to a million, / Shall I feel such a grievous pain."

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Hyperbole

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in the lines: 'But words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces.'

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Simile

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in: 'And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils.'

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Personification

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in: 'Sifted through the grass were daisies, / Open-mouthed, wondering, they gazed at the sun.'

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Personification

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in: "With processions long and winding / With the countless torches lit" Options: Simile, Personification, Hyperbole

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Hyperbole

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in: "My brain is fire--my heart is lead! / Her soul is flint, and what am I?"

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Metaphor

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Lesson-10: Figurative Language Identify the technique in the lines: "Carven cathedrals, on a sky Of faintest colour, where the gothic spires fly And sway like masts, against a shifting breeze."

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Simile