WorksheetsSimile, Metaphor and Personification
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 15mins
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Successful Life
"STOP TO LOOK FEAR IN THE FACE" IS AN EXAMPLE OF
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
"Stop to look fear in the face" is figurative language because...
The face of fear is too much to handle
Fear is an emotion and doesn't have a face
You shouldn't stop if you are scared.
"With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood."
-- Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream
The underlined parts are examples of...
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
"beautiful symphony of brotherhood." Compares...
Music to a choir
Family to a piece of music
Family to brothers
"Rain, somebody said, is like confetti from heaven. So even the heavens are celebrating this morning, joining the rest of us at this wonderful commencement ceremony."
-- USSC Justice John Roberts, Cardigan Commencement Address
The underlined part is an example of
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
...:Rain, somebody said, is like confetti from heaven." means?????
Rain is joyful
God is sprinkling confetti
Rain is wet
She has a beauty like __________________.
The earth is __________________________ that she shakes us hardly.
My mother is the __________________________ of my life.
The street is as _____________ as _____________.
