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Figurative Language Act 2

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (2.2.3).

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

2.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon" (2.2.4).

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

3.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, / as daylight doth a lamp..." (2.2.19-20).

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

4.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out" (2.2.70-71).

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

5.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "...there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords!" (2.2.75-76)

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

6.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-nite; It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens" (2.2.122-126).

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

7.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet..." (2.2.127-128).

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

8.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books..." (2.2.165).

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

9.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "...I would have thee gone; -- and yet no farther than a wanton's bird, that lets it hop a little from her hand..." (2.2.189-191).

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole

10.

Choose all the types of figurative language this quote uses: "...like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves (chains), and with a silk thread plucks it back again, so loving-jealous of his liberty" (2.2.192-194).

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

hyperbole