Poetic Elements and Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is this?

She danced like a leaf in a stream.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

The rain was a waterfall.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

What type of figurative language is this?

The rain danced on the lake.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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

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

Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly

• Simile

• Metaphor

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

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

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

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

• Simile

• Refrain

• Personification

• Metaphor

Match the following types of figurative language to their definitions

• Compariing 2 things using like or as

• personification

• Giving human qualities to something

• metaphor

• Comparing 2 things

• alliteration

• The same beginning sound is repeated in the line

• simile