FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE
1. My stallion is as black as the night.
2. He wolfed down his food in a hurry.
3. He uncoiled himself from the sofa like a snake after a long sleep.
Identify 4. The horse’s quick legs are flashes of lightning.
5. The soldiers flew down the streets like a swarm of bees.
whether its’s a
6. The violin sobbed a wailed a love story in the music.
simile or 7. the science room is a beehive of activities.
metaphor. 8. her lips were as red as apples.
9. the sailboat was a sea gull bobbing on the waves.
10. the clouds are as huge as dinosaurs.
Reference: All Around English 6 pp.29-30
11. The dark clouds looked like a grieving woman’s dark veil.
12. The room was a beehive of busy people.
13. His problems were mountains that must be climbed.
14. I wandered lonely as a cloud.
15. He is a fish out of water.
Write if it is simile,metaphor,personification or hyperbole.
READ THESE 1. The ball , like a bullet, hit me.
SENTENCES 2.The leaves swayed from left to right.
CAREFULLY. 3. The star is a dancer.
IDENTIFY 4. The North wind swings his whistling whip.
WHICH 5. It froze clean down to China.
FIGURATIVE 6. I will love you until the rivers run dry.
7. Love , keep shining down on me.
LANGUAGE IS
8. The wind whispered secrets of better days.
USED IN EACH 9. He guards like a leech.
SENTENCE. 10. The traffic jam was a sea of metal.
11. The fat comedian is a plump as a pillow.
12. The birds seem to wink at me.
13. Truly, he has a heart of gold.
14. His wife dances like a fairy in the woodland.
Figurative 15. The leaves dance when the wind blows.
language
Reference: English for You and Me Reading pp. 51-52
1. simile 13. metaphor
2. metaphor 14. simile
3. personification/metaphor 15. personification
4. personification
5. hyperbole
6. hyperbole
Key to 7. metaphor
correction 8. personification
9. simile
10. hyperbole
11. simile
12. personification
1. The English language is like a bank account of a million words.
2. The dictionary is the bankbook that helps us use the words.
3. The flowers danced happily with the wind.
4. The sleeping earth groaned and turned over on its side
Identify what causing buildings to tremble and fall.
figurative 5. The brain is like a gigantic government office.
6. Each nerve cell in the brain is a clerk receiving coded
language used in messages and sending them to the proper sends organs.
each sentence. 7. The leaves whisper their secrets to one another as the wind
passes by.
Simile,metaphor 8. Her brother was a tower of strength during those trying
,personification times.
9. the watching lambs along the coasts shine wanly on the
foam.
10. “Silently,like tired ghosts. The fishing fleet came home.”
1. an army of fleas attacked our dogs.
2. her life is a three-ring circus.
3. The old bridge groaned once in a while as it sunned itself.
4. Tongues of fire lapped at the abandoned building.
Explain the 5.The wind snarled and bared its teeth.
comparisons in 6. the airplanes were swallowed by the thick fog.
the following 7. The contortionist had a body of rubber.
metaphors. 8. His car eats vast quantities of gas.
9. The sun was an orange balloon that drifted to earth and
disappeared behind the row of dark trees.
10.To enter the museum was to enter a time machine set
thousands of years ago.
1. the city’s voice itself is soft like solitude.
2. Mother is washing a mountain of dishes.
Tell whether 3. When I lost my wallet, he said, “this is my lucky day.”
the given 4. I appreciate your reading of my personal diary.
sentence 5. He’s such a poor fellow ,he could eat dirt.
below is 6. he’s so hungry that he could eat a horse.
Alliteration,Hy 7. Marie is so kind that nobody befriends her.
perbole or 8. I really enjoy her company but I cant go with her anymore.
9. The lady’s dear diary was lost in the rain.
Irony.
10. My tears has torn my mother’s heart.
Reference:English for all times reading pp. 146-147
1. the moon rose from its sleep.
Identify the 2. The princess is lovely as a rose.
figurative 3. The wings flapped and flapped.
language used in 4. I could kill you for tickling me.
each expression 5. you’re an angel sent from heaven.
as 6. the strange animal is as big as elephant.
simile,metaphor, 7. the race car zoomed off.
personification, 8. he’s a devil in disguise.
hyperbole or 9. My two legs are sleeping.
onomatopoeia. 10. Oh,my I swallowed a horse!
11. The airplane looks like a giant bird.
12. the waves are dancing.
13. You scared the hell out of me.
14. The clock ticked and ticked.
15. She is my lucky star.
16. The sun is smiling today.
17. You are as slow as a turtle.
18. I hear the hoot,hoot,hoot of the owl.
19. He has the world on his shoulder.
20. Annie is the darling of the class.
Reference: Growing in English 6 (reading) pp 217-219
Study the
poem below
and identify
the figurative
languages
used.
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Identify the
two unlike
objects being
compared.
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