Name: ______________________________
Figurative Language Worksheet 8

Directions: Read the lines of poetry. 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 found her dancing like a leaf
And singing like a bird.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

2. Over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

3. Death will wait until you come.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

4. Old heartbreaks are old wine.
Too new to pour is mine.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

5. That night from a dingy hotel room,
 I saw the moon, like a golden gong,
 Redly loom
 Across the lake;

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	
6. My heart is a little painted poem.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

7. Up
 with the pale important
 stars and the Humorous
 moon

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

8. The ivory teeth within the jaw
 Rattled aloud, like dice.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

9. Piercing my poor brain
 With beauty, a fiery dart.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

10. The wet wind hums its colorless refrain;

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

11. I would wander with you to the ends of all creation. 

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	
12. I am glad for my heart whose gates apart
Are the entrance-place of wonders,

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

13. Lemonade and ice cream,
Sitting poolside on an endless summer day.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

14. Starvation danced with me.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

15. I wish there were some wonderful place 
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches, could be 
Dropped, like a shabby old coat, at the door, and never put on again.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

16. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

17. But on this line alone, the poet has toiled a million years or more.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	
18. Up from the vineyard comes
 Music of laughter;
 Far through the valleys they
 Gather the harvest.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

19. The black waves moaned and broke unutterably
 On a stern cliff where hand in hand we stood.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

20. Your charms in harmless childhood lay like metals in a mine;

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

21. Weeds climb about the stoop
 And clutch the crumbling walls;
The drowsy grasses droop--
 The night wind falls.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

	

22. The drops ran down as slow as fate.

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

How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)