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Figurative Language Worksheet 09

The document is a worksheet that provides 22 examples of figurative language from poems and asks the reader to identify whether each example uses a simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole. For each, the reader must also explain their answer. The examples cover a variety of figurative language techniques from different poems.

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Figurative Language Worksheet 09

The document is a worksheet that provides 22 examples of figurative language from poems and asks the reader to identify whether each example uses a simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole. For each, the reader must also explain their answer. The examples cover a variety of figurative language techniques from different poems.

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Name: ______________________________

Figurative Language Worksheet 9


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. He felt a graveyard wind go by


Cold, cold as was his enemy.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

2. The morning wind arose


And called across the world for day.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

3. She is dead and no longer able to


Drink the wine of human love;
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

4. The storm shook the land with endless thunder.


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

5. The pale moon like a petal


Floats in the dusk of Spring,
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
6. Beautiful woman is she,
 A woman whose autumn of life is here,
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

7. A mere frown from her would kill me.


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

8. O my grey hairs! You are truly white as plum blossoms.


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

9. The first dart of daybreak pierced the sky.


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

10. Beauty walks in the woods waking flowers from wintry sleep, 
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

11. It seems much as if


Sorrow had tripped up my heels.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
12. Each moment apart takes a year
Till we reunite my dear.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

13. Our hearts are music-makers in the clouds!


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

14. Rest from weary laughter


In the quiet arms of grief.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

15. If we understood, could we but draw back the curtains that surround each other's lives?
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

16. My good intent has fallen short like an arrow.


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

17. The hungry students probably would have continued eating


Right on through the lunch table had it not been for the bell.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
18. Footsteps fell as soft as fall
The rose's petals on a dewy lawn,
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

19. Now the sun is laid to sleep.


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

20. My heart was a silent sea after the storm.


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

21. The fire-flames crooned a tiny song.


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

22. Very old are the woods;


And the buds that break
Out of the brier's boughs,
When March winds wake, 
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

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