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Figurative Language Worksheet

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?

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Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

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

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)

Figurative Language Worksheet