Figurative Language HW #1

I could grow very still like an old stone on a hill

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

How sweet the sobbing violin sounds.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was once so beautiful is dead

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

When the Wind is low, and the sea is soft, and the heat-lightning plays

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Your beauty was a web of frail delight

• Simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The little road says, Go,

The little house says, Stay

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

My heart is but a haughty snail!

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Your kiss lies on my face

Like the first snow

Upon a summer place

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

An endless quiet valley spreads out

Past the blue hills into the evening sky;

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• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

She sang of his love forever

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole