Name: ______________________________
Figurative Language Worksheet 9

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 felt a graveyard wind go by
Cold, cold as was his enemy.

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

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

	

2. The morning wind arose
And called across the world for day.

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

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

	

3. She is dead and no longer able to
Drink the wine of human love;

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

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

	

4. The storm shook the land with endless thunder.

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

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

	

5. The pale moon like a petal
Floats in the dusk of Spring,

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

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

	

6. Beautiful woman is she,
 A woman whose autumn of life is here,

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

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

	

7. A mere frown from her would kill me.

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

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

	

8. O my grey hairs! You are truly white as plum blossoms.

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

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

	

9. The first dart of daybreak pierced the sky.

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

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

	

10. Beauty walks in the woods waking flowers from wintry sleep, 

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

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

	

11. It seems much as if 
Sorrow had tripped up my heels.

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

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

	

12. Each moment apart takes a year
Till we reunite my dear.

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

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

	

13. Our hearts are music-makers in the clouds!

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

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

	

14. Rest from weary laughter 
In the quiet arms of grief.

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

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

	

15. If we understood, could we but draw back the curtains that surround each other's lives?

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

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

	

16. My good intent has fallen short like an arrow.

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

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

	

17. The hungry students probably would have continued eating 
Right on through the lunch table had it not been for the bell. 

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

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

	

18. Footsteps fell as soft as fall 
The rose's petals on a dewy lawn,

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

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

	

19. Now the sun is laid to sleep.

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

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

	

20. My heart was a silent sea after the storm.

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

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

	

21. The fire-flames crooned a tiny song.

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

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

	

22. Very old are the woods; 
And the buds that break 
Out of the brier's boughs, 
When March winds wake, 

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

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