Figurative Language

Which technique is being used in the example below?

Life is too much like a pathless wood

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which technique is being used in the example below?

The stars in the sky, Exist but to light your passing feet.​

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which technique is being used in the example below?

Beauty calls and gives no warning

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which technique is being used in the example below?

My Soul goes clad in gorgeous things, Scarlet and gold and blue;

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which technique is being used in the example below?

My heart it was a floating bird

That through the world did wander free,

But he hath locked it in a cage,

And lost the silver key.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which technique is being used in the example below?

They went like moths into the grass with folded wings.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which technique is being used in the example below?

In came the moon and covered me with wonder,

Touched me and was near me and made me very still.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which technique is being used in the example below?

My thoughts are senseless to mankind

As a dream's trouble or the speech of birds.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which technique is being used in the example below?

You are a frightened owl, Blinded by the light of life​

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which technique is being used in the example below?

Oh, praise me not the silent folk;

To me they only seem, Like leafless, bird-

abandoned oak,

And muffled, frozen stream.​

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D