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Figurative Language

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


Life is too much like a pathless wood

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

2.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


The stars in the sky, Exist but to light your passing feet.​

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

3.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


Beauty calls and gives no warning

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

4.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


My Soul goes clad in gorgeous things, Scarlet and gold and blue;

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

5.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


My heart it was a floating bird

That through the world did wander free,

But he hath locked it in a cage,

And lost the silver key.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

6.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


They went like moths into the grass with folded wings.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

7.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


In came the moon and covered me with wonder,

Touched me and was near me and made me very still.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

8.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


My thoughts are senseless to mankind

As a dream's trouble or the speech of birds.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

9.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


You are a frightened owl, Blinded by the light of life​

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

10.

Which technique is being used in the example below?


Oh, praise me not the silent folk;

To me they only seem, Like leafless, bird-

abandoned oak,

And muffled, frozen stream.​

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification