Identifying Figurative Language in Poetry

Old Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Which of the following is NOT an example of an idiom?

• I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
• It is really hot outside.
• That new car cost an arm and a leg.
• The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

What is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided called?

• stanza
• paragraph
• act
• line

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resemebles the sound it represents

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words
• a contradictory phrase

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using like or as
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration

What type of figurative language is shown?
Darcy daringly dove down the deep ditch.

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• personification

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other
• comparing two things by using like or as
• a word that resembles the sound it represents