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The Raven Figurative Language

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

2.

"each separate dying ember"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

3.

"I had sought to borrow /

From my books"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

4.

"on the Night's Plutonian shore"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

5.

"the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

6.

"and an echo murmured back"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

7.

"the stillness gave no token"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

8.

"all my soul within me burning"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

9.

"beguiling my sad fancy into smiling"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

10.

"as if his soul in that one word he did outpour"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

11.

"my hopes have flown before"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

12.

"unmerciful Disaster"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

13.

"whose fiery eyes now burned "

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

14.

"the lamplight gloated o'er"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

15.

"quaff this kind nepenthe" (pick two answers)

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

16.

" is there balm in Gilead"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

17.

"within the distant Aidenn"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

18.

"of that lie thy soul hath spoken"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

19.

"On the pallid bust of Pallas"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole

20.

"the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

allusion

e)

hyperbole