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Figurative Language Worksheet 1

This document provides examples of figurative language techniques including simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification. For each example, it identifies the technique being used and explains how the determination was made. Some examples use multiple techniques. The techniques are defined as: simile makes a comparison using "like" or "as"; metaphor makes an implicit comparison; hyperbole exaggerates or amplifies; and personification gives human traits to non-human objects. The document seeks to explain how to analyze examples of poetry or other writing to identify the specific figurative language techniques employed.

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Figurative Language Worksheet 1

This document provides examples of figurative language techniques including simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification. For each example, it identifies the technique being used and explains how the determination was made. Some examples use multiple techniques. The techniques are defined as: simile makes a comparison using "like" or "as"; metaphor makes an implicit comparison; hyperbole exaggerates or amplifies; and personification gives human traits to non-human objects. The document seeks to explain how to analyze examples of poetry or other writing to identify the specific figurative language techniques employed.

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Figurative Language

Instructions: Read the lines of poetry. 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. Explain each.
1. Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed.
Which technique is being used? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)

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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)

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? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)

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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)

3. When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears,
Which technique is being used? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)

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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)

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? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)

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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)

5. I do not care to talk to you although / Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies,
Which technique is being used? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)

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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)

6. The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:
Which technique is being used? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)
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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)

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


Which technique is being used? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)

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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)

8. The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves,
Which technique is being used? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)

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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)

9. By the lakes that thus outspread / Their lone waters, lone and dead / Their sad waters, sad and chilly
Which technique is being used? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)

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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)

10. Fame is a bee. / It has a song -- / It has a sting --


Which technique is being used? (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)

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How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)
Figurative Language | Answer Key
1. Simile
Ex: The speaker compares torches to a sick man's bed using the word like or as.
2. Hyperbole
Ex: The speaker claims that the "rain never stops." which is an
exaggeration.
3. Personification
Ex: Stars are given the ability to throw spears and cry.
4. Metaphor
Ex: The moon is compared to a galleon and the road is compared to a
ribbon, which is also compared to moonlight implicitly
5. Hyperbole
Ex: The speaker is exaggerating the number of sympathies evoked by the
subject.
6. Personification
Ex: The sun is described in human terms.
7. Metaphor
Ex: The leaves are compared to fish without using the word like or as.
8. Simile and/or personification
Ex: The clock is compared to a mourner and is given the ability to grieve.
9. Personification
The lakes are given the ability to die and the quality of sadness
10. Metaphor
Fame is compared to a bee without using the word like or as

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