Poetic Elements and Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is this?

She danced like a leaf in a stream.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The rain was a waterfall.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is this?

The rain danced on the lake.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is this?

It was so dusty at the building site that I thought a million vacuum cleaners exploded.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The following from Dreams by Langston Hughes is an example of ---

Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is being used in Line 2 "For if dreams die"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a type of language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling

• figurate language

• foul language

• grammar

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figurative language is being used in Line 3 "Life is a broken-winged bird"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

What figurative language is used in this sentence?
"The boy was a statue when the train passed him by"

• Simile

• Refrain

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Match the following types of figurative language to their definitions

• Compariing 2 things using like or as

• simile

• Comparing 2 things

• alliteration

• Giving human qualities to something

• metaphor

• The same beginning sound is repeated in the line

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4