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"Casey at the Bat" Figurative Language

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of figurative language is used in line 12?


"So on that stricken multitude a deathlike silence sat;"

a)

alliteration

b)

hyperbole

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

simile

2.

What type of figurative language is used in line2?


"The score stood two to four, with but an inning left to play."

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

simile

d)

personificaiton

3.

What type of figurative language is used in lines 33-34?


"From the benches, filled with people, there went up a muffled roar,/ Like the beating of the storm waves on the stern and distant shore."

a)

hyperbole

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

personification

d)

simile

4.

What type of figurative language do the underlined words in line 17 represent?


"It rumbled in the mountaintops, it rattled in the dell;"

a)

hyperbole

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

simile

d)

personification

5.

What type of figurative language is used in line 3?


"So, when Cooney died at second, and Burrows did the same,"

a)

alliteration

b)

hyperbole

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

simile

6.

What type of figurative language is used in line 26?


"Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt;"

a)

alliteration

b)

hyperbole

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

personification

7.

What type of figurative language is used in line 48?


"And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow."

a)

alliteration

b)

hyperbole

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

personification