Name: ___________________________
Identifying Figurative Language of the Beatles

Directions: Write which technique is being used on the line.  Then, explain how you know your answer.  

Answers: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, and Hyperbole	

Example:  We take a walk, the sun is shining down, / Burns my feet as they touch the ground

What technique is being used? _________________Hyperbole_________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:
 It’s really unlikely that the ground is so hot that it literally burns his feet, so he is exaggerating.	

1.	It's been a hard day's night, and I been working like a dog

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

2.	Happiness is a warm gun

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

3.	I ain't got nothing but love, babe / Eight days a week

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

4.	Friday night arrives without a suitcase

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

5.	Thoughts meander like a restless wind / Inside a letter box

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

6.	 I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping / Still my guitar gently weeps

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

7.	The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

8.	The clouds will be a daisy chain

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

9.	Tomorrow never knows.

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

10.	 All you need is love.

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

11.	 Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know:

	

12.	Julia / Her hair of floating sky is shimmering

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

Explain how you know: