WorksheetsFigurative Language & Rhetoric Review
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 13mins
What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?
“At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the 16th century."
-Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez
Hyperbole
Simile
Allusion
Metaphor
What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?
“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to
dream before”
- "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe
Imagery
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?
“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation
is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.
Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere.”
-Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Personification
Metaphor
Allusion
Idiom
What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?
“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”
-A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Idiom
Personification
Metaphor
Imagery
What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?
“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”
-“To Autumn,” John Keats
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Imagery
What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?
“Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast
of the mind.”
-Sand and Foam, Khalil Gibran
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?
“Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells—
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.”
-“The Bells,” Edgar Allan Poe
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
- “Because I could not stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson
Hyperbole
Personification
Allusion
Simile
What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?
“In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug
laid for the feet of the coming sun . . .”
- “The Red Badge of Courage,” Stephen Crane
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?
A text written to encourage support for the protection of the Florida panther features an interview with a renowned biologist who is an expert on endangered species.
Ethos
Kairos
Logos
Pathos
Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?
A text written to evoke haste in responding to the declining Florida panther population discusses the implication of panther mortality rates.
Ethos
Kairos
Logos
Pathos
Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?
A text incorporates sound reasoning supported by the citation of relevant statistics in order to attract monetary support for legislation proposed to protect endangered species.
Ethos
Kairos
Logos
Pathos
Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?
A text includes the use of vivid, emotive language, intended to incite intense feeling in a reader regarding the destruction of the Florida panther’s natural habitat.
Ethos
Kairos
Logos
Pathos
