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Identifying Figurative Language Worksheet
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.
- 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)
- There’s a faucet in the basement / that had dripped one drop all year Since he fixed it, we can’t find it / without wearing scuba gear.
Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________ (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)
How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)
- 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)
- 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)
- The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________ (Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole)
How do you figure? (write a sentence explaining your answer)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
