Figurative Language #1

Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed

Which technique is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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

• hyperbole

When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears,

Which technique is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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

• hyperbole

I do not care to talk to you although / Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies,

Which technique is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:

Which technique is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The leaves are little yellow fish / swimming in the river.

Which technique is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves,

Which technique is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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

• hyperbole

Fame is a bee. / It has a song -- / It has a sting --

Which technique is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole