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Figurative Language 2023

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"Beautiful tyrant! ... Dove-feathered raven ... A damned saint ..." (3.2.75-79)

a)

oxymoron

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

personification

2.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"O loving hate! ... O heavy lightness! serious vanity!" (1.1.169-171)

a)

oxymoron

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

personification

3.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow" (1.1.201-202).

a)

oxymoron

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

4.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"Nay, he's a flower, in faith---a very flower" (1.3.79).

a)

oxymoron

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

5.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn" (1.4.25-24).

a)

oxymoron

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

6.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day" (1.4.45).

a)

oxymoron

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

7.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand..." (1.5.93).

a)

oxymoron

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

8.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, One nickname for her purblind son and heir, Young Adam Cupid..." (2.1.11-13).

a)

oxymoron

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

9.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,..." (2.2.4).

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

10.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;..." (1.2.14).

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

11.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, And the place death, considering who thou art,..." (2.2.63-64).

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

alliteration

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

12.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,..." (1.prologue).

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

alliteration

d)

metaphor

e)

allusion

13.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.

"Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,..." (2.prologue).

a)

hyperbole

b)

alliteration

c)

metaphor

d)

allusion

e)

oxymoron

14.

Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used. CHOOSE TWO.

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite" (2.2.133-135).

a)

hyperbole

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

allusion

e)

oxymoron