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WorksheetsFigurative Language in Christmas Music
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 22mins
"Walking in a Winter Wonderland..."
Which sound device is used in this song's title?
alliteration
onomatopoeia
"Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas Day!"
Which sound device is used in this song's lyrics?
alliteration
onomatopoeia
"Come they told me, pah-rum-pum-pum-pum
A newborn king to see, pah-rum-pum-pum-pum
rum-pum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum..."
Which sound device is used in the song, "Little Drummer Boy?"
alliteration
onomatopoeia
"You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch..."
Which type of figurative language is used in the underlined lines above?
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
"You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel..."
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go;
Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas,
Toys in every store, But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front door.
Which literary element is used to appeal to our senses in the song's lyrics?
metaphor
imagery
alliteration
onomatopoeia
Mary did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary did you know that your baby boy would one day rule the nations?
Did you know that your baby boy is heaven's perfect lamb?
That sleeping child you're holding is the great "I Am."
Which type of figurative language is used in the underlined line above?
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
alliteration
"We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star."
Which sound device is used above?
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
simile
onomatopoeia
metaphor
personification
"Let heaven and nature sing, let heaven and nature sing..."
This is an example of which type of figurative language?
personification
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
