Figurative Language Review

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” - Paper Towns

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

“Love is like the wild rose-briar” - Emily Bronte

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

“All the world’s a stage...” - Shakespeare

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

"Adults are just obsolete children" -(Dr. Seuss)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

 “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy” - (The Giving Tree)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

 “The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care” - (Emily Dickinson)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

 “You don’t have to be Michelangelo to copy and paste images on the computer” - (unknown)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

 “Don't keep pushing me because you won't like me when I'm angry” - (unknown)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

 “A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.” - (Banksy)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Identify the type of Figurative Language used below.

 “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” - (Shakespeare)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron