8th Grade Figurative Language

The soul selects her own society,

Then shuts the door;

On her divine majority

Obtrude no more.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

You say that you are wronged--ah, well,

I count that friendship poor, at best

A bauble, a mere bagatelle,

That cannot stand so slight a test.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

The terrier, down on the hearth,

Twitches and barks in his sleep,

Soft little foolish barks,

More like a dream than a dog . . .

• Hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Gazing at the apex

star configurations

red picnic blanket

the endless summer.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

Nor will a brave man choose to live when he,

Full deeply drunk of life, has reached the dregs

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

As a white candle

In a holy place,

So is the beauty

Of an aged face.

• Simile

• Metaphor

Gossiping on the country-side,

Spring and the wandering breezes say,

God has thrown Heaven open wide

And let the thrushes out to-day.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Taking daughter’s boyfriend hostage

may have been a bit extreme,

But other fathers have done worse things

when their daughters were sixteen.

• simile

• hyperbole

• Understatement

• metaphor

Beautiful lie the dead;

Like ships, the anchor dropped,

In a deep water.

• Simile

• Personification

• Understatement

• Metaphor

I heard a cry in the night,

A thousand miles it came,

It was quiet then it was louder,

My name, my name, my name…

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• metaphor