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Figurative Language - Part 1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"Forward still, though behind I heard the moaning and the murmur of the sea."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification

2.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"Once was my speech 'sweet' as the bird's on the air."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification

3.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"I could stare into your eyes as a thousand years come and go."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification

4.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"And still the pensive spring returns, and still the punctual snow!"

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification

5.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"Chocolate cake is not exactly healthy food."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification

6.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"Endless wealth held out its arms to me."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification

7.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"Within the town of Buffalo are men like ants they worry to and fro."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification

8.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"Time is a green orchard."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification

9.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"Telephone wires hung like a musical score."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification

10.

Which FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is this:

"The stars are hiding now."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

understatement

e)

personification