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Figurative Language Worksheet 1

This document contains a worksheet with 10 lines of poetry and directions to identify the figurative language technique used in each line. The techniques included are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification. For each line, the worksheet identifies the technique, and sometimes explains how it was determined. The techniques identified include similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and personifications.

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Figurative Language Worksheet 1

This document contains a worksheet with 10 lines of poetry and directions to identify the figurative language technique used in each line. The techniques included are simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification. For each line, the worksheet identifies the technique, and sometimes explains how it was determined. The techniques identified include similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and personifications.

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Figurative Language Worksheet 1

Directions: Read the lines of poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. Figure out which technique is being used: simile,
metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. In the boxes, explain how you figured out your answer. It is possible that more
than one technique is being used. If you can, explain each.

1. Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed


Which technique is being used? simile
2. Drip-hiss-drip-hiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams. / Drip-hiss-the rain never stops.
Which technique is being used? hyperbole
3. When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears,
Which technique is being used? personification

4. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,


The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
Which technique is being used? metaphor

5. I do not care to talk to you although / Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies,
Which technique is being used? hyperbole

6. The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:
Which technique is being used? personification

7. The leaves are little yellow fish / swimming in the river.


Which technique is being used? metaphor

8. The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves,

Which technique is being used? simile / personification

9. By the lakes that thus outspread / Their lone waters, lone and dead / Their sad waters, sad and
chilly
Which technique is being used? personification
10. Fame is a bee. / It has a song -- / It has a sting -Which technique is being used? metaphor

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