WorksheetsFigurative Language
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
This figurative language compares two things using like or as
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language describes something inhuman as if it were human, giving it human characteristics (e.g. Sadness seized me in its clutches)
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
When you compare two things w/o using like or as, basically saying they are the same thing, you use this kind of figurative language
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language occurs when you exaggerate a great deal (e. g. "I am starving" instead of "I'm feeling a little hungry")
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
This sound device shows emphasis by saying the same word(s) or phrase(s) multiple times
Idiom
Imagery
Allusion
Repetition
This just refers to a saying that is common that means something different from what it literally says, like (I'm pulling your leg). These can be super difficult for people learning English!
Idiom
Imagery
Allusion
Repetition
This type of figurative language just refers to the use of sensory details to describe something vividly
Idiom
Imagery
Allusion
Repetition
This type of figurative language occurs when you refer to something outside of the text (like if you reference a mythical creature in your short story)
Idiom
Imagery
Allusion
Repetition
"Love is like a red, red rose" is BEST labeled...
A simile
Imagery
Allusion
A metaphor
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul" is an example of...
A simile
A metaphor
An allusion
Imagery
When Taylor Swift writes, "You were Romeo, I was the Scarlet Letter," she uses not one, but TWO examples of this type of figurative language
Simile
Metaphor
Allusion
Imagery
The following lines of poetry are an example of what? "...all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze"
Simile
Metaphor
Allusion
Imagery
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" is an example of...
A simile
A metaphor
Imagery
Hyperbole
The song lyric, "I would walk 500 miles, And I would walk 500 more, Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles to fall down at your door," is BEST described as an example of...
Simile
Metaphor
Allusion
Hyperbole
In "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe probably repeats "Nevermore" to create a mood of...
Happiness
Hopelesness
Anger
Respect
