Poetry - Figurative Language

The literary element to make languages have more beautiful words and rich in meaning is called...

• imagery

• figurative language

• diction

• rhyme

"My love is like a red, red rose" (Robert Burn)

The figurative language of the line above is ...

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

“All the world‟s a stage” (Shakespeare)

The figurative language is ...

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

An analogy between two objects is ...

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

A figure of speech in which two things are compared using „as‟, „as when‟, „like‟, „than‟, is ...

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

"The Night was creeping on the ground! She crept and did not make a sound" (James Stephens)

The figurative language is ...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

“In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note,” (Shakespeare)

The figurative language is..

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

Water, water, every where,

Nor any drop to drink.

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

The figurative language is ..

• Irony

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

The figurative language used to convey the opposite of their literal meaning is ...

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Hyperbole

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

The figurative language is ..

• irony

• simile

• alliteration

• symbolism