WorksheetsFigurative Language
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
allusion
And whirr when it stood still.
I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will.”
This has examples of:
the sunshine sits in my lap all morning.
This is an example of:
What human characteristic is being given?
The moon guided me through the forest.
The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.
What is being personified?
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden Daffodils;
Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
imagery
metonym
simile
anaphora
Using a word or phrase
that does not actually name an object,
but represents a part of it
or a related idea,
in order to reference the whole thing
is called
metaphor
metonymy
symbol
allusion
"All hands on deck!"
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Simile
Antithesis
"I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I’ll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry"
hyperbole
understatement
metonymy
synecdoche
“I must be cruel to be kind.”
paradox
parallelism
metonymy
repetition
"But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—
Till I scarcely more than muttered 'Other friends have flown before—
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.'
Then the bird said 'Nevermore.'"
personification
metaphor
antithesis
oxymoron
Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.
euphemism
consonance
hyperbole
metaphor
Kawishiwee...Kawishiwee-
and rushes on to anywhere.
This is an example of:
Language in which the words are meant to be interpreted imaginatively is...
figurative
literal
