Figurative Language Worksheet 1

Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Answer explanation

The speaker compares torches to a sick man's bed using the word like or as.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The sun was shining on the sea,

Shining with all his might.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

This story was told to me a million times as a youth.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Answer explanation

Stars are given the ability to throw spears and cry.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Answer explanation

The moon is compared to a galleon and the road is compared to a ribbon, which is also compared to moonlight implicitly.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

You make her grave green with tear on tear.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Maybe eating an entire chocolate cake for breakfast wasn't the healthiest way to start the day.

• Personification

• Understatement

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The leaves are little yellow fish

swimming in the river.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The leaves rustled and the shutters rattled.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops

on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams.

Drip—hiss—the rain never stops.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Answer explanation

The speaker claims that the "rain never stops," which is an exaggeration.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A