Figurative Language Review

Identify the type of figurative language.

When my depression

Works the graveyard shift

All of the people I've ghosted

Stand there in the room.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

Answer explanation

This is an example of

personification because Swift gives human

qualities to something non-human (her

depression). Although depression is

experienced by humans, it is not something

that can literally work “the graveyard shift.”

Identify the type of figurative language:

Never thought I'd find

An angel undercover

Who made a change to everything

From my heart to my last name

• metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Answer explanation

This is an example of metaphor

as Brown makes a direct comparison

between the person he loves to an

undercover angel who had an important

impact on his life.

Identify the figurative language: 2 Possible Answers

Runnin' to the altar like a track star

Can't wait another second

'Cause the way you hold me

Feels so holy

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Answer explanation

This is a simile because Bieber

compares wanting to marry quickly to running

to the alter like a track star. Hyperbole is also

used to exaggerate his impatience to wed as

he says he cannot wait one more second.

Identify the Figurative Language: 2 Possible Answers

Remember those walls I built?

Well, baby they're tumbling down

And they didn't even put up a fight

They didn't even make a sound

• Symbolism

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Answer explanation

Symbolism is used in this

example as the walls represent withdrawing

or protecting yourself mentally from harm.

Personification is also used as the walls also

take on human qualities (put up a fight).

Identify the Figurative Language

It's been a hard day's night,

And I've been working like a dog

• simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Answer explanation

Simile is also used to

compare the effort of work to that of a dog.

Identify the type of figurative language:

Holdin' me back

Gravity's holdin' me back

• personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Answer explanation

This is personification as it play on words.

More specifically, it plays on the words.

Gravity is a force that literally holds people

down, but “holding back” is also a human quality.

Identify the type of figurative language: 2 possible answers

It's buried in my soul

Like California gold

You found the light in me

That I couldn't find

• simile

• metaphor

• personificaiton

• hyperbole

Answer explanation

This is an example of a simile

comparing something deep within

someone’s soul as gold in the ground. It is

also a metaphor comparing a positive

quality within someone to light.

Identify the figurative language

We were good, we were gold

Kinda dream that can't be sold

We were right 'til we weren’t

Built a home and watched it burn

• metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Answer explanation

This is an example of a

metaphor, comparing a good relationship to

gold or a dream and that relationship ending

to a burning home.

Identify the type of Figurative Language:

I only want to die alive

Never by the hands of a broken heart

I don't wanna hear you lie tonight

Now that I've become who I really am

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Answer explanation

It uses personification

giving human qualities to a broken heart (by

the hands of).

Identify the type of figurative language:

Maybe I'm too emotional

But your apathy is like a wound in salt

Maybe I'm too emotional

Or maybe you never cared at all

• simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Answer explanation

This is an example of a simile

comparing a person’s apathy to the pain of

putting salt in a wound.