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Figurative Language Worksheet 01

This document contains a worksheet with 10 examples of figurative language from poetry. For each example, students are asked to identify whether a simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole is being used and explain their reasoning. The examples feature descriptive language and comparisons involving nature, emotions, and objects to convey figurative meanings through literary techniques. The worksheet provides an exercise for students to analyze poetic devices in short passages and determine which figurative language strategies are employed.

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Figurative Language Worksheet 01

This document contains a worksheet with 10 examples of figurative language from poetry. For each example, students are asked to identify whether a simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole is being used and explain their reasoning. The examples feature descriptive language and comparisons involving nature, emotions, and objects to convey figurative meanings through literary techniques. The worksheet provides an exercise for students to analyze poetic devices in short passages and determine which figurative language strategies are employed.

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Name: ______________________________

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, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

2. Driphissdriphiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams. / Driphissthe rain never stops.
Which technique is being used?
__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

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