Figurative Language Summative
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PERIOD:
DATE:
INSTRUCTIONS: Below you will find sentences or phrases from the two poems we
have read in class. Please pick a word from the word bank to describe what type
of figurative language is being displayed. You many use some words more than
once; you may never use some words.
WORD BANK: Anaphora, Alliteration, Assonance, Allusion, Metaphor, Simile,
Personification, Hyperbole, Synecdoche, Onomatopoeia, Euphemism, Pun,
Oxymoron
1) remnants of voices -
2) one moon like a silent drum tapping -
3) dancing with a woman as gold as the river bottom4) Always, always, home, always under one sky 5) brown bones6) a sky that yields to our resilience –
7) my memory is alive8) One sun; one light; one ground; one sky; 9) One light, waking up rooftops 10)
I know it wasn’t just a horse that went crazy. -
11)
Magic stones…these things have memory you know? –
12)
My face, your face -
13)
Dreamed of silver blades and crosses. –
14)
The Creeks lived in earth towns, not gold, spun children, not gold. –
15)
Millions of faces –
16)
Apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows –
17)
I have a memory. It swims deep in blood –
18)
His bones sunk like the golden treasure he traveled half the earth to
find.
19)
The impossible vocabulary of sorrow -
20)
Voices buried in the Mississippi mud –
21)
It carries my feet to these places –
22)
The “I have a dream” we keep dreaming –
23)
One ground, our ground
24)
Morning’s mirrors –
25)
One light breathing color into stained glass –
26)
Hands, hands gleaning coal, hands digging trenches, hands as worn –
27)
Happy hollowed haunts –
28)
Bang! Bang! goes the door –
29)
This idiot is brilliant! -
30)
If I told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times! -
31)
It’s a love/hate relationship –
32)
A crazy wife says to her husband that moose are falling from the sky.
The husband says, it’s reindeer.
33)
Mrs. Glase griped that her glass of grape juice was gone.