Figurative Language in Poetry Review

Which type of figurative language is being used in the following sentence:

"I shall be as peaceful as the leafy trees."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which type of figurative language is used in the following:

"She had no saying dark enough

For the dark pine that kept forever trying the window-latch

Of the room where they slept."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What meaning can be inferred in the following:

"She had no saying dark enough

For the dark pine that kept forever trying the window-latch

Of the room where they slept."

• There is a tree trying to break the window.

• It is dark outside and a tree is making scary noises on their window.

• There is something evil outside trying to come through the window of their room.

• They feels like the tree is talking to them and wants to say something, but it cannot get the window latch open to tell them.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What type of figurative language is being used in the following sentence:

"For I knew his eyes

Like an old, old song"

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What type of figurative language is being used in the following sentence?

"Your voice was a web to bind."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What type of figurative language is being used in the following:

"Having prepared their buds against a sure winter,

The wise trees stand sleeping in the cold."

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What type of figurative language is being used in the following:

"Life is a frail moth flying,

Caught in the web of the years that pass."

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the author implying in the following?

"Life is a frail moth flying,

Caught in the web of the years that pass."

• The things that happen in our past shape our future in many ways.

• We are like spiders who spin webs to catch other people.

• Out decisions in life are not really important.

• Our lives often get tangled in the trouble of life and it can be very damaging.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is being used in the following?

"Are not my children as dear to me as falling leaves?"

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

What type of figurative language is b being used in the following?

"The sunflower drooped to the lazy wave;

The wind sleeps--

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5