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Worksheets3.1.12 figurative language (poet's toolbox)
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 7mins
You are simply the sun in my sky.
hyperbole
metaphor
simile
personification
Choose two:
Death crept in like a thief and without a word, stole what was most dear to me.
allusion
juxtaposition
personification
simile
Abraham Lincoln, what would you say today?
apostrophe
personification
metaphor
simile
Three are included, one is not. Which is NOT included?
My mother was the rock of our family, my father was like the hot air balloon.
Juxtaposition
metaphor
simile
personification
He came in, like a whirlwind.
metaphor
simile
personification
illusion
Pick two:
He was like a modern day Moses.
metaphor
simile
allusion
alliteration
Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.
alliteration
personification
metaphor
assonance
O, Life, why are you so hard?
assonance
allusion
apostrophe
alliteration
While my elementary school was like picking at cotton candy, junior high was more like trying to eat a caramel apple with braces.
juxtaposition
apostrophe
repetition
assonance
Pick two:
When I ran away, I ran fast, and I ran fearfully, and I ran far.
repetition
alliteration
simile
juxtaposition
She tried to not cry but eventually sighed and asked why.
alliteration
assonance
simile
metaphor
