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Figurative Language
Practice Worksheet
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school students to help them review and practice identify figurative devices? This
free Figurative Language Worksheet is perfect for them. Your students will
identify similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, and other figurative
devices.
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Name_____________________ Date:
Figurative
DIRECTIONS:
Identify the figurative device that is being used in the
Language
sentences provided.
Worksheet # 1
Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Personification Alliteration Idiom
Allusion Oxymoron Onomatopoeia
1. “Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.” What figurative device is being used in
the line by The Beatles?
2. “I was excited because I found $10 in the street, but later that day I got a
parking ticket for $20. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.” What device is
being used here?
3. “She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn,
squawking, out of its coop.”
4. What figurative device is used in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” lyrics, “You try
to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it”?
5. “Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard...”
6. “The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid near and nearer
the sill of the world.” What figurative device is being used in the novel, Lord of
the Flies?”
7. “The ride was so fast, it will make your head spin!” What device is being
used here?
8. “Suddenly the room was filled with deafening silence.”

9. “His hair soared in the wind like a captive egret, finally released into the
wild.”
10. In the novel, Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson writes, “My house is shrinking
and I feel like Alice in Wonderland.” What device is being used here?
11. “Sobbing, the rain cried into his sleeve.”
12. “’Well, you keep away from her, cause she’s a rattrap if I ever seen one.’”
13. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Bells”, he writes, “From the jingling and the
tinkling of the bells.” What device is being used here?
14. “I listened to his heart pounding through his t-shirt and knew everything
was going to be okay now.”
15. “If she found a blade of nut grass in her yard it was like the Second Battle
of the Marne…”
ENGLISH, OH MY!Ⓡ
Name_____________________ Date:
Figurative
DIRECTIONS:
Identify the figurative device that is being used in the
Language
sentences provided.
Worksheet # 1
Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Personification Alliteration Idiom
Allusion Oxymoron Onomatopoeia
1. “Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.” What figurative device is being used in Alliteration
the line by The Beatles?
2. “I was excited because I found $10 in the street, but later that day I got a
parking ticket for $20. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.” What device is Idiom
being used here?
3. She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn,
squawking, out of its coop.”
Simile
4. What figurative device is used in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” lyrics, “You try
to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it”? Personification
5. “Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard..” Onomatopoeia
6. “The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid near and nearer
the sill of the world.” What figurative device is being used in the novel, Lord of Metaphor
the Flies?”
7. “The ride was so fast, it will make your head spin!” What device is being
used here?
Idiom
8. “Suddenly the room was filled with deafening silence.” Oxymoron
9. “His hair soared in the wind like a captive egret, finally released into the
wild.” Simile
10. In the novel, Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson writes, “My house is shrinking
and I feel like Alice in Wonderland.” What device is being used here? Allusion
11. “Sobbing, the rain cried into his sleeve.” Personification
12. “’Well, you keep away from her, cause she’s a rattrap if I ever seen one.’” Metaphor
13. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Bells”, he writes, “From the jingling and the
tinkling of the bells.” What device is being used here? Onomatopoeia
14. “I listened to his heart pounding through his t-shirt and knew everything
was going to be okay now.” Hyperbole
15. “If she found a blade of nut grass in her yard it was like the Second Battle
of the Marne…”
Allusion
ENGLISH, OH MY!Ⓡ

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5. “Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard...”

8. “Suddenly the room was ﬁlled with deafening silence.”

11. “Sobbing, the rain cried into his sleeve.”

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