Name: _________________________
Identifying Figurative Language from Edgar Allan Poe 

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

Answers: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, and Hyperbole	

1.  Above all was the sense of hearing acute.  I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
Explain how you got your answer

	

2.  A single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice.  

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
Explain how you got your answer

	

3.  Yes, he was stone, stone dead.

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
Explain how you got your answer

	

4.  Death has reared himself a throne / In a strange city lying alone

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
Explain how you got your answer

	

5.  It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
Explain how you got your answer

	

6.  All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream.

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
Explain how you got your answer

	

7.  The rosemary nods upon the grave; / The lily lolls upon the wave;

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
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8.  The breeze— the breath of God—is still

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
Explain how you got your answer

	

9.  It was a low, dull, quick sound—much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
Explain how you got your answer

	

10.  Now each visitor shall confess / The sad valley's restlessness.

What technique is being used? ___________________________________________________________

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  
Explain how you got your answer