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Figurative Language Worksheet 04

The document is a worksheet that provides 10 lines of poetry and asks the reader to identify what figurative language technique is being used in each line - simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole. For each line, the reader must also explain how they determined their answer. The techniques identified include similes, metaphors, and personification.

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Figurative Language Worksheet 04

The document is a worksheet that provides 10 lines of poetry and asks the reader to identify what figurative language technique is being used in each line - simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole. For each line, the reader must also explain how they determined their answer. The techniques identified include similes, metaphors, and personification.

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Name: ______________________________

Figurative Language Worksheet 4


Directions: 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. If you can, explain each.

1. When the wind is low, and the sea is soft,


And the far heat-lightning plays
Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

2. Your beauty was a web of frail delight.


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

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

3. Now that I am without you, all is desolate;


All that was once so beautiful is dead.
Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

4. The little Road says, Go,


The little House says, Stay:
Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

5. I could grow very still


Like an old stone on a hill
Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
6. My heart is but a haughty snail!

Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________


Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

7. Your kiss lies on my face


Like the first snow
Upon a summer place.

Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________


Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

8. How sweet the sobbing violin!

Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________


Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

9. An endless quiet valley spreads out


Past the blue hills into the evening sky;

Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________


Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

10. His pigtail is long and thick,


Like a pump-handle stuck on the end of a stick.

Which technique is being used? ________________________________________________________


Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

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