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Figurative Language Worksheet 07

The document is a worksheet that provides 10 excerpts of poetry and asks the reader to identify the figurative language technique used in each, such as simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole. For each excerpt, the reader is asked to write which technique is used and explain their answer in a sentence. The excerpts use various figurative language techniques to describe natural elements like trees, flowers, darkness and the passing of time.

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Figurative Language Worksheet 07

The document is a worksheet that provides 10 excerpts of poetry and asks the reader to identify the figurative language technique used in each, such as simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole. For each excerpt, the reader is asked to write which technique is used and explain their answer in a sentence. The excerpts use various figurative language techniques to describe natural elements like trees, flowers, darkness and the passing of time.

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Name: ______________________________

Figurative Language Worksheet 7


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. I shall be as peaceful as the leafy trees.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

2. She had no saying dark enough


For the dark pine that kept
Forever trying the window-latch
Of the room where they slept.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

3. For I knew his eyes


Like an old, old song.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

4. Your voice was a web to bind.


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

5. Having prepared their buds against a sure winter,


The wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)
6. Life is a frail moth flying,
Caught in the web of the years that pass,

Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________


Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

7. Are not my children as dear to me as falling leaves?


Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

8. The sunflower droops to the lazy wave;


The wind sleeps--
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

9. I can scarcely breathe,


The darkness is so thick.
It stifles me,
And weighs so heavily upon me,
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

10. Between the moss and stone


The lonely lilies rise;
Which technique is used? _____________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?


(write a sentence explaining your answer)

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