Figurative Language Practice

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

Match the following literary techniques with their examples.

• I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Personification

• Time is a thief.

• Metaphor

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

• Hyperbole

• As brave as a lion.

• Simile

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