WorksheetsFigurative Language Practice
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 11mins
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1.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
The streets were strange and still,/Through the doors of the open churches/The organs were moaning shrill.
The streets were strange and still,/Through the doors of the open churches/The organs were moaning shrill.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
2.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
a)
alliteration
b)
metaphor
c)
simile
d)
onomatopoeia
3.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
a)
alliteration
b)
metaphor
c)
simile
d)
onomatopoeia
4.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
She soothed her secret sorrow.
She soothed her secret sorrow.
a)
hyperbole
b)
alliteration
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
5.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
Silver bells!... How they tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night.
Silver bells!... How they tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night.
a)
simile
b)
hyperbole
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
alliteration
6.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
He answered her he knew not what:/ Like shaft from bow at random shot,
He answered her he knew not what:/ Like shaft from bow at random shot,
a)
simile
b)
personification
c)
repetition
d)
metaphor
7.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
From “The Adventures of Pinocchio” written by C. Colloid,
“He cried all night,
and dawn found him still there, though his tears had dried and only hard,
dry sobs shook his wooden frame.
But these were so loud that they could be heard by the faraway hills…”
From “The Adventures of Pinocchio” written by C. Colloid,
“He cried all night,
and dawn found him still there, though his tears had dried and only hard,
dry sobs shook his wooden frame.
But these were so loud that they could be heard by the faraway hills…”
a)
rhyme
b)
simile
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
8.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all,
Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all,
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
hyperbole
9.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
The sun rises higher and higher, like a blossoming flower, as the children play...
The sun rises higher and higher, like a blossoming flower, as the children play...
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
onomatopoeia
10.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
And I will return, my love,
Even if it were a million miles.
And I will return, my love,
Even if it were a million miles.
a)
personification
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
hyperbole
d)
simile
11.
Identify the poetic device being used in the following:
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
hyperbole
c)
personification
d)
alliteration
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