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)