Figurative Language (HS)

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 1:

He would write, but his hours are as busy / As bees in the sun,

Which technique is being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 2:

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

Which technique is being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 3:

All round the house is the jet-black night; / It stares through the window-pane;

It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,

Which technique is being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 4: Oh, never, if I live to a million, / Shall I feel such a grievous pain.

Which technique is being used?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 5: But words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces

Which technique is being used?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 6:

And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils.

Which technique is being used?

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 7:

Sifted through the grass were daisies, / Open-mouthed, wondering, they gazed at the sun.

Which technique is being used?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 8:

With processions long and winding / With the countless torches lit

Which technique is being used?

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 9:

My brain is fire--my heart is lead! / Her soul is flint, and what am I?

Which technique is being used?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Lesson-10: Figurative Language

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.

Question 10:

Carven cathedrals, on a sky

Of faintest colour, where the gothic spires fly

And sway like masts, against a shifting breeze.

Which technique is being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification