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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Michael Jackson - Human Nature


Hear Her Voice

Shake My Window

Sweet Seducing Sighs.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoea

e)

Metaphor

2.

Mick Terry - Be A Better Boy


Better Be A Better Boy before you bother

betting that you’ll bring her back home again.

Try to treat her like you treat a tender lady.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Hyperbloe

c)

Alliteration

d)

Personification

3.

Green Day “Good Riddance”


Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test and don’t ask why.

It’s not a question but a lesson learned in time.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

4.

Demi Lovato - Skyscrapper


Skies are crying, I am watching

Catching teardrops in my hands…

a)

Alliteration

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

5.

Katy Perry - Firework


Do you ever feel like a plastic bag…

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin

Like a house of cards..

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personnification

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Onomatopoea

e)

Simile

6.

Fly me to the moon - Frank Sinatra


Fly me to the moon

Let me play among the stars

Let me see what spring is like on

A-Jupiter and Mars…

a)

Onomatopoea

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

e)

Simile

7.

I am a rock - Simon & Garfunkel


It’s sleeping in my memory

I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died…

I am a rock

I am an island…

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoea

d)

Hyperbole

8.

Like the kitty in the house.

We sing meow meow meow meow meow.

Like the cutie on the prowl come on

meow meow meow meow meow

a)

Alliteration

b)

Onomatopoea

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

9.

Charlie XCX - Boom Clap


Boom clap

The sound of my heart

The beat goes on and on and on and on and

Boom clap

You make me feel good

Come on to me, come on to me now

Boom clap

a)

hyperbol

b)

simile

c)

Alliteration

d)

Onomatopoea

10.

I'm already there - Lonestar


I’m the sunshine in your hair

I’m the shadow on the ground

I’m the whisper in the wind

I’m your imaginary friend

a)

Alliteration

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Onomatopoea

d)

Personification

e)

Metaphor

11.

Imagine Dragons - Believer


Don’t you tell me what you think that I can be

I’m the one at the sail, I’m the master of my sea, oh ooh

The master of my sea, oh ooh

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

12.

I'd without you - PM DAWN


“So take every little piece of my heart

Yeah, take every little piece of my soul

Yeah, take every little bit of piece of my mind

‘Cause if you’re gone, inside, I’d die without you”

a)

Alliteration

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

13.

A whole New World


Shining, shimmering, splendid

Tell me, princess,

a)

Metaphor

b)

Onomatopoea

c)

Personification

d)

Simile

e)

Alliteration