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This document contains a worksheet with 10 examples of figurative language from poems. For each example, the student identifies the technique being used - such as simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole - and explains their answer. The techniques identified include 6 metaphors, 2 similes, and 2 uses of personification by attributing human characteristics such as gazing, crawling, or dancing to non-human objects or ideas.

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4 Figurative Language Worksheets 2 Answers

This document contains a worksheet with 10 examples of figurative language from poems. For each example, the student identifies the technique being used - such as simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole - and explains their answer. The techniques identified include 6 metaphors, 2 similes, and 2 uses of personification by attributing human characteristics such as gazing, crawling, or dancing to non-human objects or ideas.

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Name: ______________________________

Figurative Language Worksheet 2


Directions: Read the lines of poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. 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. He would write, but his hours are as busy / As bees in the sun,

Which technique is being used?


____________________________________SIMILE________________________________________
______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

HE IS WORKING SO HARD, HE’S BEING COMPARED TO A BEE


2. My words are little jars / For you to take and put upon a shelf.
Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, / And they have many pleasant colors and lusters

Which technique is being used?


_____________________________METAPHOR__________________________________________
___________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

COMPARING WORDS TO JARS


3. All round the house is the jet-black night; / It stares through the window-pane;
It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,

Which technique is being used?


______________________________PERSONIFICATION___________________________________
_________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

IT’S GIVING THE NIGHT HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS SUCH AS CRAWLING


4. Oh, never, if I live to a million, / Shall I feel such a grievous pain.

Which technique is being used?


____________________________________HYPERBOLE___________________________________
___________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

NEVER WILL ANYONE LIVE 1 MILLION YEARS


5. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
Which technique is being used?
______________________________SIMILE______________________________________________
______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

W COMPARING SMALL DROPS OF INK TO DROPS OF DEW


6. And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils.

Which technique is being used?

________________________PERSONIFICATION_________________________________________
_________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

W MAKING THE HEART “DANCE”

7. Sifted through the grass were daisies, / Open-mouthed, wondering, they gazed at the sun.

Which technique is being used?

_______________________________PERSONIFICATION__________________________________
_________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

W GIVING DAISIES THE ABLITY TO WONDER AND GAZE AT THE SUN

8. With processions long and winding / With the countless torches lit

Which technique is being used?


_____________________________________HYPERBOLE__________________________________
___________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

W NOT COUNTLESS TORCHES JUST A LOT OF THEM

9. My brain is fire--my heart is lead! / Her soul is flint, and what am I?

Which technique is being used?

____________________ 3 METAPHOR______________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

W BRAIN COMPARED TO FIRE, HEART COMPARED TO LEAD


10. Carven cathedrals, on a sky
Of faintest colour, where the gothic spires fly
And sway like masts, against a shifting breeze.

Which technique is being used?

_____________________________SIMILE_______________________________________________
______
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

W GOTHIC SPIRES SWAY LIKE MASTS (ON SAIL SHIP)

PERSONIFICATION – GOTHIC SPIRES FLY (ABILITY TO FLY TO SOMETHING


INADEMENT)

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