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Figurative Language
Name ____________________________
Circle the correct answer.
Question #1:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and
curious volume of forgotten lore,/ While I
nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a
tapping,/ As of someone gently rapping, rapping
at my chamber door.
alliteration
assonance
onomatopoeia
Question #2:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe?
Keeping time, time, time/ In a sort of Runic
rhyme,/ To the tintinnabulation that so
musically wells/ From the bells, bells, bells, bells
/Bells, bells, bells, -From the jingling and the
tinkling of the bells.
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
personification
Question #3:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe?
From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
hyperbole
assonance
personification
Question #4:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe?
And the silken sad uncertain rustling
onomatopoeia
alliteration
hyperbole
Question #5:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
The sheep bleated as the farmer approached
with food.
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
personification
Question #6:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "Concord Hymn" by Ralph Waldo
Emerson?
Bid Time and Nature gently spare the shaft we
raise to them and thee.
alliteration
personification
onomatopoeia
Question #7:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
The daring dumb doctor darted into delivery
room.
onomatopoeia
alliteration
personification
Question #8:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
The young kittens purred and meowed as the
boy scratched their heads.
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
symbolism
Question #9:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Daffodils" by William
Wordsworth?
I wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high
o'er vales and hills...
metaphor
personification
simile
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Figurative Language
Name ____________________________
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Question #10:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Daffodils" by William
Wordsworth?
A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake,
beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the
breeze...
personification
hyperbole
alliteration
Question #11:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "Little Boy Blue" by Eugene Field?
The little toy dog is covered with dust, But
sturdy and stanch he stands;
alliteration
metaphor
onomatopoeia
Question #12:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred
Tennyson?
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for
me,
personification
alliteration
onomatopoeia
Question #13:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe?
Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!
assonance
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
Question #14:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe?
...What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells! How it dwells On the Future! how
it tells Of the rapture that impels To the singing
and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the
bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells.
alliteration
symbolism
personification
Question #15:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Spider and the Fly" by Mary
Howitt?
"Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider
to the fly; "'Tis the prettiest little parlor that
ever you did spy. The way into my parlor is up a
winding stair, And I have many pretty things to
show when you are there."
hyperbole
simile
personification
Question #16:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
The floor of the old haunted house creaked and
groaned as we tip-toed across it.
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
simile
Question #17:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
The frantic fire engine wailed as it whizzed by
the blazing building.
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
simile
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Figurative Language
Name ____________________________
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Question #18:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Alan
Poe?
So I opened it - you cannot imagine how
stealthily, stealthily - until at length a single dim
ray like the thread of the spider shot out from
the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye.
hyperbole
personification
simile
Question #19:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Alan
Poe?
It increased my fury as the beating of a drum
stimulates the soldier into courage.
simile
metaphor
personification
Question #20:
What form of figurative language is used in this
excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Alan
Poe?
A shriek had been heard by a neighbour during
the night.
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
Question #21:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
Jolene gargled, gagged, and gasped for breath as
she sat in the dentist's chair.
alliteration
simile
metaphor
Question #22:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
We laid in wait while the fake plate was taped
to the gate.
assonance
onomatopoeia
alliteration
Question #23:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
Bye and bye we'll fly high as a kite while wise
men cry.
alliteration
personification
assonance
Question #24:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
The troops traveled at least a million miles and
ate a billion meals before reaching their goal.
hyperbole
alliteration
personification
Question #25:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
At the mall Jay and Dean saw the biggest candy
bar in the entire world, but it also cost the
national treasury, so they didn't buy it.
alliteration
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
Question #26:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
The holiday shoppers were packed into the
small store like sardines.
onomatopoeia
simile
personification
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Figurative Language
Name ____________________________
Circle the correct answer.
Question #27:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
The silver chain lay around his neck like a
shackle waiting to be released.
metaphor
personification
simile
Question #28:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
The new apartment was freedom to the young
boys.
personification
simile
metaphor
Question #29:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
Brad's freshly scrubbed face shone like a new
penny.
simile
metaphor
personification
Question #30:
What form of figurative language is used in this
sentence?
Jason drove like a professional race car driver.
personification
simile
metaphor
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Figurative Language
Answer Key
1. alliteration
2. onomatopoeia
3. assonance
4. alliteration
5. onomatopoeia
6. personification
7. alliteration
8. onomatopoeia
9. simile
10. personification
11. alliteration
12. alliteration
13. assonance
14. alliteration
15. personification
16. onomatopoeia
17. onomatopoeia
18. simile
19. simile
20. onomatopoeia
21. alliteration
22. assonance
23. assonance
24. hyperbole
25. hyperbole
26. simile
27. simile
28. metaphor
29. simile
30. simile