ANAND NIKETAN INTERNATIONAL
Satellite Campus
Worksheet
Grade:
Date:
Name:
1. He would write, but his hours are as busy / As bees in the sun,
Which technique is being used?
A. Similie
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Pun
2. During a dangerous mission on the foreign planet, Spaceman Spiff zapped the alien with
his ray-gun.
Which technique is being used?
A. Similie
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Personification
D. Pun
3.
Which technique is being used?
A. Similie
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Personification
D. Pun
4. My home is a million miles from here
Which technique is being used?
A. Hyperbole
B. Understatement
C. Personification
D. Metaphor
5. My words are little jars / For you to take and put upon a shelf.
Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, / And they have many pleasant colors and lusters
Which technique is being used?
A. Similie
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Personification
D. Metaphor
6. Keith threw his brother on the ground and the dishes fell to the floor with a clatter.
Which technique is being used?
A. Euphemism
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Personification
D. Metaphor
7. "Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot!" Had they heard it?
The horse-hoofs ringing clear-"Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot" in the distance?
Were they deaf that did not hear?
Which technique is being used?
A. Similie
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Personification
D. Pun
8. So maybe jumping out of an airplane without a parachute wasn't the best idea.
Which technique is being used?
A. Euphemism
B. Understatement
C. Hyperbole
D. Metaphor
9. The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest.
Which technique is being used?
A. Euphemism
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Personification
D. Metaphor
10. Marcie, the hamster had been sick since last summer. Eventually, they put her to sleep.
Which technique is being used?
A. Euphemism
B. Understatement
C. Hyperbole
D. Metaphor
11. And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils.
Which technique is being used?
A. Hyperbole
B. Understatement
C. Personification
D. Metaphor
12.
Which technique is being used?
A. Pun
B. Understatement
C. Personification
D. Metaphor