Poetic Elements and Figurative Language

Leaves can't really dance. What might really be happening?

• The leaves are dancing through the lawn.

• Whoever wrote that is just going crazy since that could never happen.

• The wind is making the leaves move across the lawn.

• When music plays, the leaves dance.

In the darkness of the night

Who could see you speeding by

Like a comet in the sky.

Which is NOT found in this stanza?

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Personification

• Repetition

bark-bark-barking is an example of which of the following?

• simile and alliteration

• onomatopoeia and repetition

• repetition and hyperbole

• onomatopoeia and hyperbole

human qualities or ideas are given to non human things

• idiom

• alliteration

• imagery

• personification

author's use this with descriptive words to create a picture in the reader's mind

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

comparing 2 unlike things using "like", "as", "than" or "resembles"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• assonance

What type of figurative language is present in the following excerpt from "Worlds Afire?"
I thought a tiger’s swipe
was fast
until I saw the fire spread.
It was like a dam burst -
water rushing
with no purpose
except to move.

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Identify the figurative language:
I felt like a fish out of water.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Identify the figurative language:
Her hair was a bird's nest of tangled locks.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor 

• idiom

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.  Your heart's an empty hole.

• It came without packages, boxes or bags!

• Roast beast is a feast I can't stand in the least!

• It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.